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Totally agree with the author here. Being primarily an Android developer I hate when I need to get access to a Mac to anything iOS related. Phonegap Build solves this problem. I work for avocarrot.com and I managed to do a Phonegap wrapper of our iOS SDK with the build service only using my linux machine.. Pretty awesome!

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If you want to install the phonegap app on your ios device for tests and later publish to the app store you still need a mac.

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After you added your app on itunesconnect you can upload the binary. You need "application loader" for that. I haven't found another way, but would be very pleased if there is one.

Yup, sorry you are right. I've heard of people using a service like http://www.appstoreuploader.com but I haven't personally.

Sure, let's give out your iTunesConnect password, what could go wrong?

It still requires a certain degree of trust, but you can setup multiple users within iTunes connect with tuned permissions for exactly these cases.

Well, I saw some people creating the certificate with openssl on windows, you should in theory be able to use this for device testing

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