[warning26]

Not necessarily disagreeing, but my key question here is: how will Apple handle lower-level development cases? It's not difficult to imagine a watered-down iPad XCode shipping, but what about the tooling they use to build iOS itself?

After all, Apple has to use something to develop iOS, and I think it's unlikely they'd create a special in-house operating system for the exclusive use of their OS development teams that's totally different than what they ship to consumers.

[jdavis703]

Why are you assuming iPadOS wouldn’t support low-level development?

[vbezhenar]

I'm sure that they could just use Linux for that. I wouldn't be surprised if they're using Linux right now.

[saagarjha]

Almost all Apple engineers use Macs.