It doesn't look like Emacs will be available as an App on the iPad: the external keyboard doesn't send a few important keys; the Apple SDK license agreement prevents the distribution of apps outside the App store which conflicts with the GPL which requires the free distribution of source; and lastly there is the restriction of interpreters running on the iPad OS (I was hoping they would have made an exception for Squeak, but alas, no such luck).
I would have to jailbreak the iPad to natively install Emacs on it. But running it remotely is possible, if there was a decent terminal emulator; pterm seems to be crashy according to the comments on the iStore.
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