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Re:Apple Hires Key Chip Designer From ARM as Own Efforts Ram... by rowanG077 on Thursday June 27, 2019 @05:26AM (#20292906)
Do you write any code? Because that is not allowed on iOS. Do you want to browse see an application and want to use it? Because that is not allowed on iOS. iOS is so far from being a useable OS that I don't think it will ever be anything more then an internet machine with light video and image editing capabilities. The last update to the ipad pro should tell you enough about what apple thinks constitutes a "professional" OS.

That being said OSX running on a higher specced ipad pro CPU could be really awesome but I don't think that is what will happen.

Re:Apple Hires Key Chip Designer From ARM as Own Efforts Ram... by cnj on Thursday June 27, 2019 @06:38AM (#20293227)
It is allowed to write code on iOS.

There are several code editors for iOS https://duckduckgo.com/?q=ios+code+editor and Apple has even published an own app for students to learn coding called Swift Playgrounds https://www.apple.com/swift/playgrounds/ - it isn't a full-blown code editor, but it clearly allows you to write and run code.

And that is ignoring cloud/browser-based code editors. That execution model (write code local, run in the cloud) makes sense with mobile devices which have limited power supply. I personally don't want to spin up several docker containers on my iPhone ;)

Re:Apple Hires Key Chip Designer From ARM as Own Efforts Ram... by MagnumOpus on Thursday June 27, 2019 @08:18AM (#20293736)
> I personally don't want to spin up several docker containers on my iPhone

But other people might? Especially if it not a phone but a 12.5 inch iPad that is supposed to be more powerful than my 5-year-old dev laptop (and has more RAM too).

> It is allowed to write code on iOS

Great, so you can pen&paper your code like in the 1960s. In the 21st century, writing code includes being able to run the compiler/interpreter on your terminal to debug as well.

Re:Apple Hires Key Chip Designer From ARM as Own Efforts Ram... by wlesieutre on Thursday June 27, 2019 @09:02AM (#20293969)
You can run code on an iPad too, though it's more useful for on-device utilities than for writing code that you want to ship somewhere else.

http://omz-software.com/pythonista/

https://scriptable.app/

Re:Apple Hires Key Chip Designer From ARM as Own Efforts Ram... by sambe on Thursday June 27, 2019 @06:25AM (#20293157)
There are IDEs on iOS.