Do you need Mac OS X to develop iPhone apps?

Question

I was reading some sort of article stating you need Mac OS X to develop iPhone apps. is there really such as restrictions?

Can\'t you just download the SDK (and the

Answer 1

You absolutely need Intel Macintosh hardware to develop iOS apps. The iOS SDK requires Xcode and Xcode only runs on Macintosh machines. I think that any Intel Mac will work, but with how fast things are changing a newer machine will get you longer time before you are forced to upgrade the machine.