“Real” OS X Apps on the iPad? Are You Crazy?

"There are many reasons for this, but it really starts with the fact that modern Macs use Intel CPUs and Intel CPUs just aren’t as power efficient for a given level of performance as the ARM CPU in the iPad,"

Doesn't the iPad have an Apple chip now?

Otherwise the article is a fairly nice commentary on why iPad doesn'r run OSX native apps. The article doesn't cover the technical details of what would be required to write an ObjectiveC app that ports to Both platforms. The Developer Tools for iPad is out, and I'd like to hear more about it - unless of course, it IS the _same_ as the iPhone developer tools.

From a developer's perspective, there's a real possibility that the iPad will be trapped in the valley between cheap, simple iPhone apps and powerful, albeit expensive desktop applications.

The economics of the App Store are already a bit shaky for sophisticated (read expensive) apps. Taking advantage of the iPad certainly won't be less expensive, yet realistically there will be far fewer potential customers even if the iPad is a success.