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If I could code on an iPad Pro, I’d finally get rid of my MacBook Pro. I think that’s exactly why apple doesn’t allow this at all...

• jlarocco 8y ago
  Can you explain the appeal? As a long time iPhone and iPad owner, I find iOS intolerable and it gets worse with every release. Coding on an iPad would be like trying to prepare a 5 course dinner on a kid's Fisher Price kitchen or building an intricate model with Duplo Lego bricks. Maybe possible, but a terrible experience. So what am I missing?
  • chipotle_coyote 8y ago
    I am genuinely baffled by "iOS gets worse with every release." If you wanted to argue that iOS's approach to multi-pane displays, application switching, and file management, should be better than it is now, sure, absolutely. But when I consider the improvements in the past few years -- the dock, split view, drag and drop, file providers, Shortcuts -- I confess I'm not thinking, "Man, I long for all the power and utility we had in iOS 6 that's lost to us now." I mean, yes, iOS is still by and large a terrible coding environment, there are a host of long-standing complaints I have with other things both large and small, and I don't doubt I could find a few weird little annoying regressions, but I absolutely wouldn't want to run an earlier version of iOS on my iPad.
    • jlarocco 8y ago
      I don't write mobile apps, so I have no idea about the coding environment, but the last several upgrades have consistently annoyed me. It seems there's a lot of change for the sake of change; more things tied into iCloud and other Apple services; upgrade prompts that prompt over and over and over and over again; etc.. And then there are several annoying bugs they don't fix, like having to reboot my phone after tethering my laptop (a Macbook) before I can tether again.
  • cgb223 8y ago
    The assumption here for me anyway is a literal clone of XCode Same look feel etc. maybe with some touch gestures if it works well
• epynonymous 8y ago
  personally, i hate having to drag an ipad and mbp along everywhere i go, ideally if i could carry just my ipad, that would perfect. from all the marketing for the latest ipad, i think they’re moving more towards this vision, from the ipad page: “Like a computer...” “A12X Bionic is the smartest, most powerful chip we’ve ever made. It has the Neural Engine, which runs five trillion operations per second and enables advanced machine learning. Translation: It’s faster than most PC laptops.“ “It’s all new, all screen, and all powerful. Completely redesigned and packed with our most advanced technology, it will make you rethink what iPad is capable of. And what a computer is capable of.” either their marketing team doesnt know about this breed of developers that need to compile software and are just trying to get the masses to replace their laptops or they know about us and are looking to truly replace the macbook pro with ipad.
• Rygu 8y ago
  If you do web development, you should definitely try out the MacBook 12 inch.