Steve Troughton-SmithIt's 2025. The last time I had a laptop was in 2012, with the first-gen Retina MBP. My sole portable computer since then has been iPad, for well over a decade, so all these 'can iPadOS 26 replace your laptop?' videos, or the 'we're Mac guys and of course iPad will never replace the Mac so why are they even trying' podcasts, are pretty amusing
Taylor Hadden@stroughtonsmith Not being able to write code on trips sounds like a wild, horrifying life.
@taylorhadden I've written major features in my apps on trips. Playgrounds exists
@stroughtonsmith That only addresses the apple ecosystem, and 0% of my development.
@stroughtonsmith If the iPad could run arbitrary code and I could work on rust, c++, and node apps, I would find its portable, convertible form factor super appealing.
But it can’t, and I don’t. It just can’t do the thing that I use a screen attached to a keyboard for.