This is pretty cool, but why the heck would I want to develop on the platform I am developing for? We've had cross compilers for the last 30+ years and they have served us well. I don't want to use a crappy on screen keyboard and an environment that doesn't have all my tools for 10 hours a day. It's not healthy and it's not productive. How is it even better than the status quo?
It's true. You know those times you're away from the laptop/in bed, and you're thinking hard about a certain platform bug? Well now you can just whip out your phone and test it out. It's not a full blown solution, but it is convenient. And it will only get better.
I was actually looking for this just for fun... The grandfather of all modern touch interface, Palm OS, had a bunch of different tools to also allow working on PalmOS apps. We now have better keyboards, better screens (2-3x resolution), can't imagine why not for the occasional fun project, tweak or demo...
Disregarding that the original comment was probably sarcastic.
I agree with what you say but I think developing this kind of software is a great idea, nobody knows exactly where the future in technology is taking us but it is not so crazy to think that the mobile phone will replace the PC, the way I see it, in a not so distant future, you might be connecting a mobile device to a screen, keyboard and mouse and you'll use it as a PC, so making IDEs for mobile might be the future.
This is of course just me guessing, and there is one more side to consider: it might be more likely that mobile devices become powerful enough to actually use the same software we use on our desktop.
I can already connect my Droid 3 to HDMI monitor input and a bluetooth keyboard (actually Droid 3 keyboard is not too bad for development , I used VI many times via ConnectBot app). In the future, it will become only better: you will just put your phone next to the monitor and the keyboard, with no cables, and it will be like today's PC.
