Steve Troughton-SmithApple was once convinced the future of computing was 'apps', so iPad was designed married to that idea. But we're 16 years on now, and the present of computing is AI, and IDEs, command lines and virtualization, and Python, and git, and scripting and automation. iPad risks being completely left behind as a computing platform by not supporting any of that stuff properly, and developer interest has been waning for years now. It's well past time for iPad to get its shit together, and open up
Eduardo PontesI have a 16” MacBook Pro as my main Mac and relied on an 11” iPad Pro w/keyboard to be my mobile / around the house computer. Some shenanigans to circumvent limitations but it was okay-ish. Always hopeful that it would get better.
Then Claude Code happened, and suddenly a sluggish 2017 12” MacBook is far more useful just because it has Terminal and a “real” browser.
Its a crossroad. Either free the iPad to realize its potential or just kill the iPad Pro line.