Wow, it’s already the end of May, and my last blog post was in February. Time sure flies when you work from home. Before WWDC happens this year I wanted to document my expectation. I talked about it during my podcast a few weeks ago, and even went out and bought a new iPad Pro – hoping that I am right.
While it would be very cool to run macOS on the iPad, I don’t think that is what will happened. Nor do I think Xcode will be delivered. But what I do think is going to happen is that we are going to say a flip from the Xcode Previews app. Last year – Apple introduced this app to allow your to preview your SwiftUI designs quickly and easily. I believe that this year, Apple will finally enable (at least on the iPad), on device UX design, which generates SwiftUI code for you in an attached Xcode instance running on a Mac.
The main reason that I don’t think that Apple won’t let you do full development is that the Mac is a premium desktop or laptop. And you pay that premium. If developers could do all their work on the iPad, then there would be a large drop off of Mac revenue. And with the new M1 MacBook Pro being rumored (14 and 16 inch models), there’s a lot of money on the table for Apple to make in 2021 and 2022.
What are your WWDC predictions.