Despite the HN bubble, there are a lot bigger markets for pro users than developers. I would venture to say that from a profit motive, it makes little sense to bring development to the iPad. There is no money in development tools.

For places that must have bespoke internal apps, a lot of them are moving toward dumb clients and some type of Citrix solution.

In terms of “sheer numbers”, the desktop market is minuscule, the laptop market could easily go to ARM if MS could ever figure out a good transition strategy, and the server market runs Linux where power is big as important as overall power consumption.

Don’t you think that Intel would rather be in ARMs position than what it is now? I don’t have numbers on the server market, but outside of that Apple ships more chips than Intel.

Edit: this was just submitted to HN showing the performance of Intel chips to Amazon’s custom designed ARM chips.

https://blog.min.io/intel_vs_gravitron/