Not to put too sharp a point on it, put there are several languages which can be used to develop for iOS (including for iPad). In fact, the language (I believe) Michael is working with, Qt, does have port capabilities for iOS.
That said, I suspect the refactoring of memory handling, input/output and overall api compliancy would still make it quite difficult. Plus, there's always the business question regarding could it even be profitable?
There are a couple ways others have chosen to tackle this problem. Onshape has a most unique strategy where they have all business logic in their cloud servers, written in whatever language they choose, then deliver to a browser the resulting processes using Angular, Bootstrap, JQuery and a host of other javascript frameworks.
Lastly, there is an interesting NURBS modeler just released for iPad called uMake ( https://www.umake.xyz/ ). Looks to me like an extremely light version of MoI-- and at a substantial price.
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