This is gibberish.  The programming tools on the iPad are already quite powerful - far better than those old basic powered micros.<p>There is also no reason to believe that XCode or the equivalent will not come to iOS now that the devices are nearly performant enough.<p>As far as a completely open system like Smalltalk goes - that was a wonderful world which I wish we lived in, but we don&#x27;t - not because of Apple, but because of malware, black-hats, and cyberwarfare.