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I would be very concerned if any of my development team announced they were going to use their iPads for developing code. The iPad is a device that is best used for CONSUMING information, not creating it. Developers need large screens, efficient processing and multi tasking. Perhaps some small work could be done (like reviewing), but not serious development.

Brett Miller http://www.customsoftwarebypreston.com/android-iphone-ipad

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I keep seeing comments like this posted in this article, and maybe I'm just being defensive; but I kind of think that's a dangerously dismissive point of view.

I think developers have been creating applications long before they had "large screens, efficient processing and multi tasking". I won't argue that these things make development easier, but they are certainly not a requirement.

Every day I hear about people using these devices for creating content, and every day the trope about them only being for "consuming information" seems more and more absurd.

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