Earlier today I wanted to test out March’s application on my iPod, which I had upgrade to iOS 5.1 a while ago. I was quite surprised to see that I was not able to, because “The version of iOS on my iPod does not match any of the versions of iOS supported for development with this installation of the iOS SDK.”
It turns out that in order to run your apps on an iOS 5.1 device, you need Xcode 4.3. Ok, fair enough; I’ll just go and downlo…. oh, wait. It requires OS X Lion.
Huh?
In order to develop for a minor revision of iOS, I need a minor revision of Xcode, which requires an entirely new operating system?
So, my options are now:
- Upgrade to Lion
- Downgrade to IOS 5
- Hack Xcode 4.3 to run on Snow Leapoard
Thanks, Apple. Nice to see you still have no respect for your developers. At least I’m not the only one who feels this way.