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Couldn't have seen this donation go to a more dedicated group of folks I have worked and interacted with in the past and love seeing these contributions back! :)
I'm Chris Hardy, a program manager at Microsoft working on the Xamarin Live Players. Yup, you will still need a Mac, to deploy to the app store, to work against different APIs that require special provisioning (such as Push Notifications, etc.), sign and provision applications to share via TestFlight. The goal for Xamarin Live Player is to provide an easier and faster way to work and iterate on applications with C# and Xamarin without the need to commit to downloading and provisioning different devices to get up and running.
There's a cache here: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:w1Aic--...
I would much rather be able to know what colour the car is that's turning up with UberX, makes it easier to spot the car as it arrives.
There's on-going efforts for RX support but you can use something like ReactiveUI with Xamarin.iOS http://blog.paulbetts.org/index.php/2013/03/12/reactiveui-4-...