> But we held ourselves to a short schedule, we could risk it. If it made a few bucks, great! If not, we could treat it as the quirky art project it was.
Good budget advice for all science/art projects!
Redpark SDK is public, perhaps serial console support can be added to an open-source terminal app, https://redpark.com/developer-tools/
Weird Apple restriction on DB-9 vs RJ-45 interfaces:
Per current Apple MFI policy — apps developed for the Serial Cable or Serial + Power Adapter may be used in private deployments or deployed via Apple Business Manager or Apple School Manager. However apps may not be deployed via the public Apple App Store.
Apps developed for the Console Cables or DEX Cables may be deployed via a public Apple App Store if desired.They could just have an AirPlay server as part of every iPad and make a lot of this possible without dongles and cables. Bonus points for making Airplay an open standard so we don't all stand around for the next 20 years figuring out which subset of devices can stream to which subset of displays ("It just works?").
Sorry for the rant, I'm just annoyed by all of the dark-ish patterns around iOS devices that seem to be trying to drive multiple units rather than sharing of fewer units.
Same goes for using your Mac’s display on an AVP. I use third party software to do it instead.
I really hoped the rest of the article would be covering the hurdles of them developing a 4K resolution-capable dongle. Instead, they spent the majority of their budget trying to upsell something already ubiquitous with design and marketing tricks. Good job, I guess.