ok, so it seems like you’re more upset about the fact that you had to do some investigative work on your end before you realized that Apple has a restriction in place saying a Mac is needed to build Apple applications. I guess that’s fair; below is the other thread from another guy who feels the same as you do:
http://forums.coronalabs.com/topic/39138-want-to-hear-a-good-joke/
The thing about both of your cases is, they are the exception that proves the rule. The fact that there aren’t a thousand identical posts would tell us that, the information is transparent to the vast majority of the user base.
I come from an IT background but had zero knowledge of high-level (lua, java) language and how one would even go about developing software. I did some research, a TON of googling, approximately 2 metric tons of reading (and yes, quite a bit of digging) before I got to the point where I felt half-way competent when dealing with producing something halfway decent. I spent a lot of time developing and testing my app, and released it! But then I found out that, lo and behold, it wasn’t really that fun to play. It was meant for kids, but I fell down in the marketing/sales realm, which has always been and will always be my Achilles heel.
I didn’t really start this post with the intent of giving my life story, but I wanted to convey the fact that my badge says Pro, I am Jedi level (which really doesn’t mean much) in the forums and I have somewhere between a novice and an advanced amount of knowledge regarding Corona specifically, and Lua in general. Like I said before, Corona does a lot of things poorly. I’d love access to the file directory for Android, I’d LOVE to have Windows Phone/8 support now (I’m impatient) and I would really really like to have a more intelligent way of creating and removing physics bodies without the performance hit (which is more of an issue with Box2D than it is Corona). What they are good at is support. You see Tom just responded and modified their documentation based on your feedback. That’s tough to beat.
In summation, I think you should take this as the first of many development hurtles you are going to encounter. Use it to familiarize yourself with Apple architecture. Maybe you’ll fall in love with it and want to buy a Macbook and never look back. Maybe you will realize that Android is eating their lunch as far as marketshare and only want to develop for Android. Maybe you’ll realize this whole development thing isn’t for you and you’d rather be a poet or a farmer. You are at the very outset of a journey towards development competence. None of these outcomes are wrong, and we all have been there.
