[mrep]

So what do you call all the people who develop for apples platforms because they make an extremely high portion of the value for an OS. Without Mac/iOS developers, apple would have gone bankrupt long ago as no OS can compete withouts external developers?

[azernik]

And all of those iOS developers have somehow gotten along just fine without doing their development on an iOS device.

[mrep]

This thread is about using an iPad as a laptop replacement which no developer can do if they want to develop for Mac/IOS so what is your point?

[azernik]

You seemed to be arguing that Apple was at risk of losing its developers for iPad if it didn't make it suitable as a development platform. That's not plausible.

You seem to be responding to a higher-level comment saying "developers are not the target audience" with "but it's not suitable for developers", which... yeah?

[eridius]

I call them "developers".

[mrep]

And how do you think they will develop IOS/Mac apps with an Ipad which is what this thread is talking about?

[chipotle_coyote]

Long-term, there are likely to be iOS development tools that allow this. They may not be this year, or the next, but given that iOS already has Git clients, code editors, and even sandboxed programming environments like Pythonista and Scriptable, it's hardly ridiculous to think that an iOS equivalent to XCode is already under development.

[eridius]

I don’t. I think the iPad doesn’t have to replace 100% of laptop uses.