Swiftpoint Mouse

Just a couple of weeks ago I was joking telling the Logitech R&D engineers to go home, as the MX2 Anywhere is already the best mouse ever made. But it turns out there is one very big pain point that can be - albeit unexpectedly - solved by a creatively designed mouse.

The pain point is that mice don't work with iOS devices, such as iPads.

Apple does not support the Mouse Profile over Bluetooth. They have (economic) reasons to do so, because mouse support is for many the missing link between an iPad becoming a computer. And Apple thinks that would be bad for them...

But the good news is that iOS devices have very good Bluetooth implementation and support other device types very well.

So here is what Swiftpoint has done: it pretends to be something else, not a mouse (I have not had time to sniff the traffic, so this is just a guess). But the bottom line is - it is a mouse that works "even on iPad". There is a small (*) explaining that it works only in selected apps. WHich is true, because the iOS does nto support mice. But the apps do. That list of the apps is growing and is led by terminal emulation appc - such as Jump that can do Windows Remote Desktop (RDP) as well as Linux (VNC). And does that very well. I have just configured a Raspberry PI running headless configuration of Ubuntu, using the iPad with the Swiftpoint Mouse and it is just great. Extremely smooth and precise.

I really wish the Microsoft Office (and Google Office) applications supported that too. This would be a moment when many could honestly say - my iPad is my computer (as it even has a mouse).

Swiftpoint - extremely well done! Logitech - I want that in the MX2!