> Now, their friends all have iphones, and if a kid could hack out an app for their friend group and share it around, it would give them great motivation to lea

> Now, their friends all have iphones, and if a kid could hack out an app for their friend group and share it around, it would give them great motivation to learn and hack in that ecosystem. You can create apps on the iPad and share the source bundles with friends without a paid account https://developer.apple.com/swift-playground/ https://developer.apple.com/swift-playground/ edit: To be clear, I'm not defending Apple here, I'm still 200% in favor of "let people run the code they want on the device they own", what I'm trying to say is just if you're a kid who wants to do this, you already can!