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Some have asked what the use case is for a device like this. For anyone with an iPad and a mechanical keyboard, the answer is simple: to avoid having to hook up through the Lightning "Camera Adapter".
Why? Because iOS does not recognize keyboards as supported USB devices. The stupid thing is that USB keyboards, in fact, work just fine. Apple allows them to work but nags you with a popup window every minute telling that your USB keyboard is not a supported device. Dumb dumb dumb.
I have a Pok3r and an iPad Air. The Pok3r is currently connected through the Lightning adapter and it "works" but with the nagging popup window. If I could connect the Pok3r to a bluetooth adapter like this one, then the iPad would theoretically see it as just another bluetooth keyboard like the one built into the Targus case. Bear in mind that I do not carry the Pok3r around with me. I leave it at work and carry the iPad around with me. The Pok3r isn't meant to be a portable input device; it is meant to be a superior replacement to both the glass surface of the iPad and the crummy chiclet keys of the Targus case keyboard. It can just stay at work where I spend 10 hours a day, and this bluetooth adapter can stay there too.
However, I am skeptical that it would work in my situation because I have the iPad paired with the Targus case keyboard. Can the iPad communicate with more than one bluetooth keyboard at the same time?
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