title: Do I need to own an iPhone to get a signing key? (or: Can I build my Phonegap App without owning an iPhone?)
body: <p>I am hoping to be able to build an iPhone app using Phonegap. I have already built the entire site and I am at the stage where I simply want to be able to make a build that I can put on an actual iPhone device and test it out.</p>
  
  <p>Long story short, I am trying to use Dreamweaver, which now supports Phonegap, to make that build.</p>
  
  <p>I borrowed a friend's Macbook Air, and signed up for an Apple developer licence, and paid my 100 dollar yearly fee. I think I'm good to go as far as Apple agreements go.</p>
  
  <p>However, in the instructions for building with Phonegap in Dreamweaver, it seems that I have to have something called a "signing key", and it also seems like whatever this key is, it's tied to a device.</p>
  
  <p>I don't own any Apple devices myself, and I'm just a lone developer without a budget to go out and buy Apple devices as needed. My hope was that I could make my app available on iTunes, have my friends who own Apple devices download it, and have them help me beta test my app that way.</p>
  
  <p>Am I right in my understanding that this "signing key" requires a device?</p>
  
  <p>How do I go about jumping through all of Apple's hoops when I don't own an Apple device myself? I have a Macbook Air laptop I can borrow now and again, and if I borrow a friend's iPhone, I can only hold onto it for as long as they're willing to stand beside me and let me muck about with it. It is, after all, their phone.</p>