As it is, Resolve requires a really beefy, powerful laptop to work well. The limited resources of an iPad are not going to be enough.
You're arguing against a point I'm not making. I said that there's no way it would work well with anything other than proxies and that it would have to be a very, very lite version.
you may as well just use Rush or Lumafusion, which already exist.
Sure you can export an XML from Lumafusion, but is that really as streamlined and as user friendly as collaborating over an out of beta Blackmagic Cloud with Resolve project files could be?
Say an assistant logs cloud stored footage and creates a rough assembly on their iPad before sending on to an editor or colourist, would that work now? No. Will it work in 2 years? I think it's more than technically possible.
In time workflows being offered via Dropbox in collaboration with BM and similar from Frame.io could mean there'd be no need for drives and local footage for basic offline editing. Will that fly for every production? Absolutely not, but it will for some and I don't see any reason why BM shouldn't innovate in that space especially given their cloud ambitions.
There's a common thread on this board where members, with the best of intentions, tend to dismiss use cases or workflows outside of their own. You need panels, you need a desktop etc. Of course there are proven practices that must be respected but I don't know, all seems conservative and limiting to me.
Still, right now the iPad Pro is a nice screen to put your scopes on or to use for a clean feed, so it's useful already