I built a PoC of this before, and as far as I can tell, entirely legally.
End goal was building iOS apps w/o any mac hardware. Using some open source patches to clang, libimobiledevice, and a whole bunch of other tools, I was able to write an iOS app in "good ole C in emacs" on my linux laptop, cross compile it for the iPhone, and even code sign, upload and run it on the phone.
This was several years ago. If offered as a hosted service, do you really think anyone would pay for it enough to make it worth my while to code up and polish?
End goal was building iOS apps w/o any mac hardware. Using some open source patches to clang, libimobiledevice, and a whole bunch of other tools, I was able to write an iOS app in "good ole C in emacs" on my linux laptop, cross compile it for the iPhone, and even code sign, upload and run it on the phone.
This was several years ago. If offered as a hosted service, do you really think anyone would pay for it enough to make it worth my while to code up and polish?
EDIT: HAH! I forgot I said all this the last time this topic came up 2 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17763855