{"id":42423,"date":"2023-10-20T15:21:06","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/startupsmart.test\/2023\/10\/20\/how-apple-is-taking-its-first-steps-towards-a-more-comprehensive-post-pc-world-startupsmart\/"},"modified":"2023-10-20T15:21:06","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:21:06","slug":"how-apple-is-taking-its-first-steps-towards-a-more-comprehensive-post-pc-world-startupsmart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/uncategorized\/how-apple-is-taking-its-first-steps-towards-a-more-comprehensive-post-pc-world-startupsmart\/","title":{"rendered":"How Apple is taking its first steps towards a more comprehensive post-PC world – StartupSmart"},"content":{"rendered":"
By Michael Cowling<\/em><\/p>\n Hands up if you\u2019ve heard of Swift Playgrounds? No, it\u2019s not some new startup providing quick playdates for bedraggled parents, although that might be interesting.<\/p>\n Swift Playgrounds is the new programming tool, introduced by Apple in June at its annual Worldwide Developer Conference, based on the Swift programming language the company introduced a few years ago.<\/p>\n What makes Swift Playgrounds interesting is that it provides a first-party computer programming platform that can be run entirely on an iPad, no computer required.<\/p>\n While Apple has been slowly adding features to the iPad over the past few years, this represents a pretty significant step change for Apple.<\/p>\n It means the company is starting to acknowledge that these machines \u2013 famously called post-PC devices by the late Apple CEO Steve Jobs \u2013 are now powerful enough to be used to write apps for use on the same device.<\/p>\n That means it may not be long before these devices can be used totally without a personal computer for everything, from writing content to developing apps.<\/p>\n Of course, Apple is not the first company to launch programming tools for the iPad.<\/p>\n Universities such as MIT have been developing tools such as the Scratch visual programming language for the iPad for a number of years. This gives primary school and middle school students a platform to develop their own games.<\/p>\nThey might be Swift, but they\u2019re not the first<\/h3>\n