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I wouldn't imagine a device like that to literally goes out without any decent content creation thought in mind. I'm sick of using my medium (now) screen iPad a

I wouldn't imagine a device like that to literally goes out without any decent content creation thought in mind. I'm sick of using my medium (now) screen iPad as a comment maker. I want to use it for development. I want my iPad to run WebStorm , SublimeText, GitHub. I want a jailbreak iOS that is capable of running a desktop Apps on that new desktop-performance iPad. This should've been the big news about the new big-size iPad.

bsimpson 11y ago
Curious to see how long until Atom is ported to iOS. It's all just HTML and a JS engine, right? If Facebook can build React Native, someone can build Atom for the iPad Pro.
- Artemis2 11y ago
  > It's all just HTML and a JS engine Yeah, about that... It's actually a [pretty huge piece of software](https://github.com/atom/electron https://github.com/atom/electron). That's not saying that porting it is impossible, it's that if it was easy, an ARM Android version would already exist.
- robterrell 11y ago
  Why Atom? There a countless good native text editors for iOS already. I really like Editorial (with Python macros!) but Coda and Textastic are both great.
devindotcom 11y ago
Seems to me the iPad was always intended as a content consumption device. Seems like your use case is much, much better served by an iPad Air - which costs about the same as an iPad Pro but is way more developer friendly. It's kind of like saying "man, they ought to sharpen these spoons up, I can't cut my food with them at all!" A little bit, anyway. At any rate they're starting down this road so your use case won't be so rare or unaccommodated soon.
- bsimpson 11y ago
  You mean Macbook?
- wingerlang 11y ago
  > Seems to me the iPad was always intended as a content consumption device. But the whole video about this pro was that it was great as a content creation device. Drawing, image editing, multitasking and document creation etc.

bsimpson 11y ago

Curious to see how long until Atom is ported to iOS. It's all just HTML and a JS engine, right? If Facebook can build React Native, someone can build Atom for the iPad Pro.

Artemis2 11y ago
> It's all just HTML and a JS engine Yeah, about that... It's actually a [pretty huge piece of software](https://github.com/atom/electron https://github.com/atom/electron). That's not saying that porting it is impossible, it's that if it was easy, an ARM Android version would already exist.
robterrell 11y ago
Why Atom? There a countless good native text editors for iOS already. I really like Editorial (with Python macros!) but Coda and Textastic are both great.

devindotcom 11y ago

Seems to me the iPad was always intended as a content consumption device. Seems like your use case is much, much better served by an iPad Air - which costs about the same as an iPad Pro but is way more developer friendly. It's kind of like saying "man, they ought to sharpen these spoons up, I can't cut my food with them at all!" A little bit, anyway. At any rate they're starting down this road so your use case won't be so rare or unaccommodated soon.

bsimpson 11y ago
You mean Macbook?
wingerlang 11y ago
> Seems to me the iPad was always intended as a content consumption device. But the whole video about this pro was that it was great as a content creation device. Drawing, image editing, multitasking and document creation etc.