Still not changed in 2021 is the viability of iPad software, the software market is still very uncertain from a business point of view, and technical limitations would potentially make things painful.
While the idea of Sparkle running on iPad is nice, would you still want it with the following limitations:
- subscription only
- only bundled with first party hosting
- mostly reliant on cloud services for ordinary use
You might not be aware but an iOS/iPadOS app only gets seconds of background use before it gets killed. Since the system doesn’t natively support FTP or SFTP, this means you wouldn’t be able to publish to an ordinary web host.
Since the system doesn’t allow the use of more than say a gigabyte of RAM, we would need to offload page generation and image processing to a cloud service, which implies a subscription.
There are many more arguments like these, but just one last one. There’s the matter of interaction density, or how close on the screen you can click/tap. Desktop pointing devices are made for this. Fat fingers aren’t.