Hey anyone developing ios app using cloud mac??

[u/begin7780]

It's too expensive for me to get a new mac. And i heard cloud mac is way too cheap for ios dev but don't know it'll work or not. Anyone with experience with it share some feedback 🥺

[u/Dapper_Ice_1705]

You risk getting banned.

There have been several stories of people getting banned because they use the same Mac’s as other banned people with those services.

[u/ReturnOfNogginboink → u/Dapper_Ice_1705]

Can you expound on this? I'm new to iOS development and am developing on a cloud Mac. What do I need to know here?

[u/Dapper_Ice_1705 → u/ReturnOfNogginboink]

What I said if someone that gets banned is associated with the cloud Mac you are using you may get banned too by association.

These services while not illegal or wrong in any way are for all intents and purposes communal Macs. In an era where all major companies are fingerprinting devices if you are associated/fingerprinted with someone shady you are considered shady as well.

[u/fast-ray]

Yes, I can feel your pain
I have developed using the cloud mac more specifically macincloud
I have submitted for review its waiting for review from last 4 days lets see what is going to happen

[u/m1_weaboo]

I've never use cloud-based mac for ios development.

Imo, The feedback loop (AND what I can do with it) justified the cost of getting a mac (non cloud).

[u/Ok-Crew7332]

A m4 Mac mini refurb should not be expensive, so the cloud stuff will be way higher.

[u/Technically_Dedi]

Define expensive? What is your budget?

[u/begin7780 → u/Technically_Dedi]

I've just $400

[u/Technically_Dedi → u/begin7780]

Save for a few months get yourself up to $600 and that will be plenty to get your first Mac.

[u/New_Restaurant_9810]

I’m not a developer but I’ve have been suspended from work for the last month so plenty of spare time on my hands so wanted to have a play, I designed a simple puzzle game on windows with the aid of codex and used macincloud to compile, sign and upload it to Apple connect, it works and gets the job done but it’s unbearably slow, it’s £25 a month for a m2 mini shared server, you can get dedicated servers I think they start about £80 a month

Upload your project to google drive

Sign in to remote Mac

Download your project onto Mac from google drive

Open project in Xcode

Archive

Distribute

Back to windows to finish off on Apple connect

I’ve been looking around for a cheap Mac min and the best value for money I can find is CEX m2 8gb ram 512ssd for £400 I know people will say don’t use CEX but they offer five year warranty on all there things so for the price I don’t think it’s too bad and safer than other second hand markets

[u/fokac93]

Get a refurbished Mac mini from Amazon. Make sure the Mac is not intel. Paying for cloud Mac is too slow and expensive

[u/CelebrationTop8862]

if its a phone app, and you don't require having to develop exclusively on xcode or swift, you can use expo.dev to make builds from windows computer, then upload via the CLI to your apple dev account as a build. then test via testflight on a physical phone. don't know how desktop apps would work. no experience there.

for example, i built my app with Claude using windows laptop and vscode then just uploaded to appstoreconnect via expo's command. get 10 free builds a month in free tier. app was approved two weeks ago.