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> Apple wouldn't just sacrifice the entry-level MacBook product category and I'm not even sure about that - the look-and-feel of a "display with attached keyboa
by Topfi 11mo ago
> Apple wouldn't just sacrifice the entry-level MacBook product category and I'm not even sure about that - the look-and-feel of a "display with attached keyboard" (i.e. Thinkpax X1 Tablet-style) is vastly different from a bottom-heavy Macbook with actual hinges. The former isn't really usable as a literal laptop unless you got some seriously long upper legs.
The iPad Pro with Magic Keyboard is just that and in my personal experience does very well even on shorter legs due to its weight distribution. Were Apple to go down the route of actually enabling Xcode, etc. on iPads, they'd likely invest a bit more into the ergonomics of course, but they are already there and not comparable to Lenovos efforts in that regard.
- ChrisMarshallNY 11mo agoMuch as I’d like to see Xcode on iPad, I doubt it will happen; at least, not with the current Xcode. Xcode is huge, it’s bigger than most games. A lot of that size, is an aggregation of tools, built up over a couple of decades. Replacing it with a rewrite, would be a major operation, but would probably be required, in order to work on iPad.
- mschuster91 11mo agoMost of its size, I think, comes from the device emulator images.
- ChrisMarshallNY 11mo agoI’m not sure of that. It stores that stuff in a different container. [UPDATE:] I just looked at the contents. The single biggest component is the toolchains (Swift, SourceKit, etc). The next biggest components, are the platforms (which may be used to construct simulator images). These are all wrapped into the app, itself.
- nicoburns 11mo agoYou can configure an iPad up to 2TB. I don't think storage if going to be the blocker
- ChrisMarshallNY 11mo agoYeah, but it's not a monolithic code block. I suspect there are dozens of tools, that are years old, have very few folks that know how they work, and probably only work on Mac.
- nicoburns 11mo agoAh, you're consider the possibility of Xcode on ipadOS? I was imagining Xcode on an Ipad running macOS. EDIT: I should have read the thread more closely.
- evilduck 11mo agoA 2TB 13" iPad with a Magic Keyboard is more expensive than a 2TB 14" MBP with double the RAM. They may sell a capable enough iPad but it doesn't make a lot of financial sense unless they closed all the gaps.