macbook enough for iphone app development ?

I decided to try selling few shitty apps after having seen what crap people acutally buy, tho it seems I need a macbook to make those

I don't want to buy an iphone on top of it so is the emulator thingy enough for development ?

OP here,

$99 fee is just trivial, the thing is, apple products are like 3 times more expensive here than they are in USA. I can't just go for it, I need to confirm if everything will be ok before investing in it.

So,

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Could you confirm If people can actually sell them on appstore ? I'd LOVE to write in any language other than obj-c (I prefer c++ but java is fine too) and I really hate apple but I need to start making money, doing fine academically doesn't cut it anymore.

And if that's not the case, can iphone simulator do everyting an iphone/ipod can (or "simulate" few others like that accelerometer in xmlvm demo) ? I'm about to bid for a macbook and will buy if it'll be cheap enough but I really don't want to buy an iphone later.