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Yes, he is using an iPad + remote Linux machine + network connection. It’s an interesting and useful combination for some use cases. You’re right that “you ca
by williamstein 9y ago
Yes, he is using an iPad + remote Linux machine + network connection. It’s an interesting and useful combination for some use cases. You’re right that “you can’t really seriously work offline [for software dev] on it”, at present due purely to Apple-imposed software constraints, IMHO.
Regarding “not suiable for any efficient and high quality content creation”, there are some use cases where the iPad 10.5 Pro is pretty useful:
- with an Apple Pencil, it’s a very useful device for sketching out ideas (much like a piece of paper is, but with some neat advantages, e.g., infinite size, scalability, editing),
- with the keyboard and any text editor, it’s useful for banging out text, e.g. a rough draft of a blog post or paper...
- bergie 9y agoMost of the Apple-imposed constraints on local development and code execution were lifted recently: https://www.macstories.net/stories/coding-on-ios-is-more-feasible-than-ever-before/ https://www.macstories.net/stories/coding-on-ios-is-more-fea... Of course, it will likely take a while before developers are able to publish apps that utilize these new permissions to the Store.
- williamstein 9y agoCool; perhaps I will be one of the developers to publish such an app! Without those constraints, I could technically provide a purely local offline App version of https://CoCalc.com.. https://CoCalc.com...