What is the best equipment for building iphone apps?

Question

I have never programmed on mac; I made a program on a NeXT machine using objective-c tho. I want to learn how to develop applications for the iphone, which is the recommended optimal (reckon with the lowest cost and best developer experience) to buy from Apple to develop iphone?

thank you in advance.

Answer 1

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