“Professional users” encompasses more than just programming.
iPads are already great for professional musicians and artists. Also things like reading PDFs and sending emails, which probably make up a large portion of professional work.
Someone has to program the apps for these “future devices”. It’s very weird to me how the future of computing is a terrible interactive interface for the very people who have to make the future interactive interface. They’ll be forced to release an iPad that is the “future” and a Mac someone can actually program on.
iPads are already great for professional musicians and artists. Also things like reading PDFs and sending emails, which probably make up a large portion of professional work.