I think you are misunderstanding my 'comes out with an ipad app', which would simply be a much more hw-oriented version of what is show in this video (likely with better performance on screen refreshes, which could be done locally, and with support for X ipads): I do not think anybody could advocate HW actually running on the ipad
Of course I am not implying you'd want to come out with something like it, just that if you did I'm pretty sure people would find good use out of it...
To clarify what I mean (people not interested in programming etc. can stop reading now
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- hw creates the pixmap of the stop panel (left/right/...)
- the ipad(s) connects to hw over wifi and identify themselves as left/right/...
- hw sends the ipad(s) the pixmap and a list of button locations/shapes within the pixmap
- the ipad now can do screen redraws independently from hw, and just transmit over wifi 'user pressed button x'
this ought to be reasonably simple to code, and much more high performance/easier to config than running a full VNC solution (which is what I assume is happening in the video)