A year ago, I'd never shipped a mobile app. Today I have four live on the App Store — and I built and submitted every one of them from a Windows PC, without ever owning or opening a Mac.
If you've done any iOS work, you know the received wisdom: you need a Mac. Xcode is Mac-only, and Xcode is how iOS apps get built, signed, and submitted. For years that was a hard wall for anyone on Windows or Linux.
It isn't anymore. Here's exactly how the pipeline works, the objections people always raise, and the honest trade-offs — so if you're a Windows dev sitting on an iOS idea, you know it's actually within reach.
The one idea that makes it possible: the Mac lives in the cloud
The trick isn't a hack or a VM. It's that the Mac never has to be yours.
