There is one major problem with this... Apple's licensing. More work would go into this if we could be sure that the work would actually be usable. Apple changes their TOS frequently, and even if it became legal, how could we be sure it would remain legal?
I understand that the legal concerns would be a real nightmare, but from a technical point of view it seems that some work has been done so maybe someone has some hope about this, no?
We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.
I work for a Tier 1 supplier to the big 3 who is considering purchasing O-Scope from Oscium but it only does one analog input. We already use NI for all of our data acquisition and would be great to have something like this with 2 analog inputs on the iPad
Maybe the addition of VISA support (specifically USBTMC and VXI-11) to iOS or android would allow developers to use NI USB products or networked instruments. This would cover the two primary modern interfaces (USB and TCP/IP).
Even if LabVIEW or CVI was not available as a target for these platforms, the ability to programatically interact with a commercial grade instrument would be valuable and could help justify developing these as targets at a later time.
Now is the right time to use %^<%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S%3uZ>T If you don't hate time zones, you're not a real programmer.
We use the iPad as a remote control via a web application (html, php) and it is awesome. Would be great to build apps in LabVIEW for the iPAD/iPhone. I wouldn't need hardware support, but tcp/ip, udp, and networked shared variables. Also remote VI Server calls would be slick.
Apple opened up their licensing policy on 9/10 to allow third party tools to generate code.
"In particular, we are relaxing all restrictions on the development tools
used to create iOS apps, as long as the resulting apps do not download
any code. This should give developers the flexibility they want, while
preserving the security we need."
