the thing is, every device can be used for web development these days. "it’s quite possible to do advanced software development on the iPad" the author's idea

the thing is, every device can be used for web development these days. "it’s quite possible to do advanced software development on the iPad" the author's idea of advanced seems to correspond to what i consider the duplo blocks of programming, which is sad. :/ try some actual software development and the ipad does not stack up, because there are zero compilers for it and zero tools. on the other hand, that surface 4 can run all of the industry standard tools except xcode and lets you build native code for any platform, including those horrible apple ones and complicated or specialist stuff like quantum computers or games consoles.