But a student trying to develop for Android can’t afford devices that start (!) at 908.35 USD. (Price of the Pixel 5" with 32GB storage, in Germany, right now).
And Google just dropped support for my phone, the Nexus 5X (which I bought for 324 USD, on sale, just before they stopped selling it)
Buying into iPhone development might be more expensive upfront, but you get a longer update period (which is obviously important for developers).
I paid around $725 USD for a 2012 Macbook Pro which can develop for iOS and it has 16GB of ram, an SSD and a hard drive for time machine.
[2]https://support.google.com/nexus/answer/4457705#nexus_device...
I’m comparing between developing on Google devices, and non-Google devices.
Replaced the motherboard myself, a year later, same issue.
Bummed about it because otherwise it's a good phone at a great price. Only thing I complain about other than that is how terrible the camera is, but for a cheap phone that's a few years old, it's unfair to compare to today's devices.
