If you think about your future career in NZ, why not do the .NET related development? It seems that large number of positions exist here and the pay is said higher than PHP programmer.
If I couldn't find a job, I would practice .NET. Just shortly after I finished the installation of Visual Studio 2008 in my PC, I got an offer for Andorid APP position.
I got permission from my wife and I bought a ipod touch 5g from warehouse for NZ$289.
The sad thing is the ios version is 6.1.3 which means there is no known method to jailbreak the device. I have no problem with apple. I just simply don't want to pay US$99 each year without any opportunity to earn that money back.
My initial experience is that apple is so cheap on the ipod touch. The physical button is only the power button and the home button and two sound volume button. It does not have back button like my samsung galaxy s2 phone got which I paid around NZ$700 long time ago.
I was suggesting to my boss to develop android application for the replacement for the website. The application development is finished and the customer is really happy about the application and no need to go apple way. Thus the boss is not willing to fund any development in apple. The trouble for me is most job ads in NZ want the developer can develop in android and iphone. I have to invest myself just in case I lose my current job. My wife do not want me to get lower paid job than my current job if I lose my current job.
It seems that once install following two applications, there is no need to jailbreak the ios device. I just tried the skype without providing apple my visa credit card and it works.
BTW, I guess it's not a big deal to program in Objective-C considering that I was developing in C++ using Visual C++ MFC since 1995. It should be a piece of cake.
My boss complained to me that one customer using ipho ...
You can use front-end frameworks (e.g. bootstrap) which provide cross device support quite well to develop the web apps.
I am a web and iOS developer myself. If you want to learn iOS development well, the best choice is to buy a mac and iPhone (at least iPod touch) since the simulator is different from physical device.
You can use front-end frameworks (e.g. bootstrap) which provide cross device support quite well ...
Thanks for the tip
I don't want to use front-end framework. It won't give me more job opportunity/higher salary by using a framework vs native code development on iphone etc.
As I mentioned in my previous post, I already bought a ipod touch 5g and installed lion with xcode 4.5 on a virtual machine.