From the other comments here, it looks like this thing is basically the equivalent of the iPads we have running Envoy outside every conference room at my company. We weren’t nearly so clever. Our setup just has an ordinary Lightning cable going to a plain old, standard-issue charger to keep it going.
Lmao @ pink mustache factory. That slayed me. I was definitely uncertain if OP meant Envoy the service mesh or not. Was thinking, "has cloud infrastructure gone too far?" Thank you for clarifying!
It's even funnier because we also use the pink mustache factory tool at work, just not for scheduling meetings. I never thought to elaborate, because the meeting room management software is the one I interact with most. The other is mostly transparent to me as a lowly app backend engineer, and I'm glad for that.
I've heard more than once that tablets don't really cover the "running for hours, powered externally" use case very well (the constant charging/discharging leading to an exploding/expanding battery).
Was this just the early models or is this still the case?
I do wonder why there are so many commercial solutions for basically "a tablet, just a bit different".
Lots of places including Apple and Nordstrom use iPhone as a mobile checkout or scanning device. Lots of restaurants have iPads that just sit all day and are used as a POS.
Personally I think an iPad outside a conference room is a waste of capability but it shouldn’t harm the device or be dangerous.
iPad may be a waste of capability but there's no competition in the less-capable camp. Making less capable varieties is waste of design and manufacturing effort.
From the other comments here, it looks like this thing is basically the equivalent of the iPads we have running Envoy outside every conference room at my company. We weren’t nearly so clever. Our setup just has an ordinary Lightning cable going to a plain old, standard-issue charger to keep it going.