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Logitech MX product have had this feature for a while now and its even cross platform. its called Logitech Flow and works almost as seamlessly as that mac demo. Only difference would be installing the Logitech Options app vs it being native. Seems like a great feature if you're fully in the Apple ecosystem.

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> Only difference would be installing the Logitech Options app

Is that the app that wants to use all 8 cores and turn my iMac into a noisy space heater every now and then? I love Logitech’s hardware, but their software is consistently terrible.

never had that happen before. as we speak, the app is running at 1% of a core and 100mb ram. id imagine that whatever apple implements uses some sort of protocol that wouldn't be free in terms of resources either.

To be fair, it behaves most of the time. It’s just that sometimes (I’d say, about once a week) it doesn’t. And yes, Apple occasionally do cock up. But I have seen this sort of things happening too often for comfort with Logitech’s drivers, over more than one decade.

That doesn't support the iPad though, right?

And I'm going to guess that's because of Apple restrictions, anyway. Good luck getting past the App Store Review a program that tries to read and/or control the mouse pointer position.

It's already hard enough to do a Synergy-like thing in Android, although technically still barely possible.

I ponder if this is a new business model -- make a shitton types of applications outright impossible in the name of "security", then announce your own (proprietary) implementations of these types of applications that bind people to your brand of devices in order to encourage sales.

New? This is just market segmentation.

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