[OS X TeX] TeXpad (LaTeX iPad editor app) dev's blog post on Mac OS X appstore sandboxing

[Chris Goedde]

On Apr 4, 2012, at 1:35 PM, David Derbes wrote:

> Tthere is a lot of push toward cloud computing. I doubt that we will see anytime soon an iPad with sufficient storage and processing power to run a local copy of Mathematica; though surely Real Soon Now (if not already available) there are clients that can be run on an iPad to call a remote kernel. More and more people seem to want me to use Google Docs rather than MS Office (or equivalent) on my laptop. 

I don't want to argue about this, but this is one of my pet peeves, so I can't resist …

I first used Mathematica in the early/mid 90's on a Mac Centris 650 or maybe an IBM PC with a 80486 running windows 3.1. I think the iPad has a wee bit more processing power, memory, and storage than those machines, so I'm skeptical of claims that it can't run a local copy of Mathematica (or Matlab, or …). Maybe it can't run the desktop version with exactly the same performance, but it's certainly capable of running a very useful local version.

Chris