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Andy Rubin, the founder of Android had already made a name for himself in mobile technology. In 1999, he co-founded Danger Inc. Microsoft bought Danger in 2008.

Google acquired Android in 2005, before the iPhone was unveiled in January 2007.

Probably easier & cheaper to do switching in HDMI 2.1 though.

Aquilon is expensive, but the nice thing about the units is that they literally allow you to have a seamless switching experience (everything else will blank out the screen, and cause it to disconnect for a few seconds while everything resyncs).

The idea is basically "Synergy's convenience, but with real hardware switching." You run a tiny client on each machine. When your cursor hits the left edge of your desktop, Fence tells a USB and HDMI Switch to physically redirect your keyboard and mouse to the next PC.

The switching happens in hardware and you can design your layout per-direction and per-device.

Where the L1T KVM is the "one box handles video and IO beautifully" approach, Fence is more of an "IO routing layer" that lets you keep your existing monitors and their auto-input-switching (or a separate video path).

I built it specifically to be cross-platform. You don't pass clicks/keystrokes over the network, just a "switch to pc2 PC, left edge" message.

Not a replacement for the L1T if you want one-button video+peripheral switching, but if someone likes their monitor's own input handling and just wants the "mouse to edge" workflow it's a nice middle ground.

I like the fact that moving the mouse to different edges of the screen can show exactly the source to the sink that I want.

I originally built it for live streaming with OBS, but now, I miss it when I have more than one computer I need to deal with at a time.