I'm afraid that IOS doesn't interest me enough at the moment. There can be no doubt that IOS with it's staggering user-base is attracting a large number of developers but that's not where the cutting edge of graphics are and that's where I would like to be personally.
If anything IOS is a huge step backwards for developers in terms of GPU technology.
While the mobile platforms have performance characteristics that are very impressive for their size and power footprint, compared to the high end PC spectrum and indeed the soon to be released, next generation consoles?
The IPad 2 for instance, with it's out-of-order, dual core 1gz A9 Cortex chip and PowerVR GPU would barely hold it's own against average gaming PC's of 8 years ago (especially given that the small cache that normally accompanies the A9 implementations; 'ghz to ghz' comparisons against desktop CPUs of similar frequencies are woefully ill-founded)
I feel there's work to be done on the Object Pascal front, targetting the newer versions of OpenGL.
And assuming I continue to work alone? I should be finished right about the time that mobile devices see the next generation of OpenGL ES
My reasoning would be this : major companies have bought into ES fully; Apple, Samsung, Sony etc. They're all now bound to OpenGL (somthing that I bet microsoft is regretting given they've had plenty of opportunity to cross platform DirectX
When the next itteration of ES comes, that'll be what these companies use and it will almost certainly be a sub-set of GL4.0 or some future version. Khronos will not further diverge ES away from the mainline GL versions, if anything they'll aim to merge again.
But I digress.
Really it's because I want to, I'm not interested in 'following the money' or even targeting the largest audience. If that was my goal I'd be coding in C/C++
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