http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/f545e/i_am_a_fourtime_published_author_i_write_free/c1dco3b http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/f545e/i_am_a_fourtime_..

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/f545e/i_am_a_fourtime_published_author_i_write_free/c1dco3b http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/f545e/i_am_a_fourtime_... 'I stand by my prediction that, by the end of 2015, Apple will not sell any computing devices with root access available. 'Here's what it will sound like: "iOS has been a runaway success. With 1 million apps now available in the App Store, blah blah blah. We've heard from countless people that their iPad is now their primary computer. And we've heard from developers that they use their iPad for everything except... developing iPad applications! ... Introducing XCode for iOS. With a bluetooth keyboard and mouse, you can now write AND TEST your apps directly on your own iPad. It's free, and it's available right now in the new Developers sections of the iOS App Store."' You can write an entire Mac application and run it without having root access. In fact you can write an iPad web app inside the ECMAScript sandbox now. For more http://answers.oreilly.com/topic/1285-ipad-friendly-browser-based-programming-environments/ http://answers.oreilly.com/topic/1285-ipad-friendly-browser-... I'm an embedded guy, but it seems like most of Hacker News's readers are just the kind of very-high-level-language (and framework) people who could bring a Commodore 64-style safe intro to computing environment to MobileSafari and Chrome OS. If you want (your kids) to go further like PEEK and POKE let you do on Ataris and Commodores, you can go native and do crazy things like extend the WebView like PhoneGap does. Remember: you don't need Apple's permission to do perverse things to the JavaScript interpreter. You can even run interpreters on that interpreter.