If you want to write a native objective-c cocoa touch app, you need a mac.<p>However Novell and Adobe have alternative solutions:<p>here is info on mono/iphone dev:
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/01/open-source-mono-framework-brings-c-to-iphone-and-wii.ars" rel="nofollow">http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/01/open-source-...</a><p>here is info on flash/iphone dev:
<a href="http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashcs5/appsfor_iphone/" rel="nofollow">http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashcs5/appsfor_iphone/</a>