Well, the Analogue people did the protocol conversion and made an off the shelf product that is impressive (and previously praised by the author). The additionally impressive step comes with the improved accessory support with iPadOS 17. Hurrah for dongles!
I think my point is that it’s a somewhat roundabout way of saying “UVC now works on iPad”
Whether it be UVC or something else, there would have been a conversion somewhere. UVC just made the integration a lot easier.
Yeah there's nothing particularly remarkable about this. Apple added support for USB video devices, he plugged a USB video device into an iPad, and it worked as intended, he could have done the same with a PC and been surprised it works with Discord or whatever
Yeah but... as far as I'm aware, nobody's tried that.