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Nov 2, 2011 7:51 PM UTC
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Mac required for upload to appstore?

Is a Mac ultimately required to upload an app to the iOs appstore?

App built, all hoops in iOs provisioning and iTunes Connect passed through  but one:   Uploading the binary!

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DachFlachAuthor
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Nov 2, 2011 10:49 PM UTC

Oz, it does appear that a Mac ( or VM of one ) is required.

the Virtual Machine option does seem to be the quickest and cheapest solution.

I am trying it out now.

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Inspiring
Nov 2, 2011 10:53 PM UTC

I never tried using a virtual machine for the application loader but it should work. If it's easier for you more then using someones mac for a couple of minutes go for it

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Inspiring
Nov 2, 2011 7:57 PM UTC

you can run the application loader also using a virtual machine, that's the only part where you need a mac OS when uploading to appstore.

go here for instructions that Joe wrote.

"The Application Loader utility is available only for Mac OS X 10.5.3 or later. In Windows, you can run Mac OS X inside a virtual machine."

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Nov 2, 2011 10:05 PM UTC

If all your certificates and provisioning profiles are in order its a really fast process, basically as fast as you can upload, although there is one crazy step you have to go through and thats changing your .ipa file name to a .zip then extracting that inside that extracted folder find the .app file (might be .ipa) and then zip that to upload. Just zipping your finished .ipa will not work even if everything is right. This wasted a good few hours of my life before I found this out.

http://forums.adobe.com/thread/727471?tstart=30

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DachFlachAuthor
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Nov 2, 2011 10:29 PM UTC

@Mark

From what I see that still requires a Mac to use the application loader to upload the final file.

Are you telling me otherwise? Have you actually uploaded outside of a Mac OS ?

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