Apple 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

@stroughtonsmith future of computing (as presented to the users) is 'apps'
computing (as presented to developers) is 'whatever' so they can make the 'apps'

I don't see any contradiction?

using ipad for development? you do you 🤷