One app is all Apple needs to make iPad damn near perfect
One app is all Apple needs to make iPad damn near perfect By Ed Hardy • 8:15 am, July 23, 2026 NewsTop Stories iPad can handle Xcode. Photo: Ed Hardy/Cult of Mac A recent poll of Cult of Mac readers found very broad support for iPadOS, but there’s still a small group that’s deeply unsatisfied. And while Apple certainly can’t make everyone happy, it could significantly shrink the number of complaints by adding one app.
- ▪One app is all Apple needs to make iPad damn near perfect By Ed Hardy • 8:15 am, July 23, 2026 NewsTop Stories iPad can handle Xcode.
- ▪Photo: Ed Hardy/Cult of Mac A recent poll of Cult of Mac readers found very broad support for iPadOS, but there’s still a small group that’s deeply unsatisfied.
- ▪And while Apple certainly can’t make everyone happy, it could significantly shrink the number of complaints by adding one app.
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One app is all Apple needs to make iPad damn near perfect By Ed Hardy • 8:15 am, July 23, 2026 NewsTop Stories iPad can handle Xcode. Developers want it. It's time for Apple to deliver. Photo: Ed Hardy/Cult of Mac A recent poll of Cult of Mac readers found very broad support for iPadOS, but there’s still a small group that’s deeply unsatisfied. And while Apple certainly can’t make everyone happy, it could significantly shrink the number of complaints by adding one app. One very long-overdue app.ezstandalone.cmd.push(function () { ezstandalone.showAds(837); }); It’s time for Apple to finally do what developers have wanted for so many years: bring Xcode to iPad.
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