Reviews for Apple 30-pin to VGA Adapter

When you plug this into an iPad 2, everything you see on your iPad you see on the screen. Great for videos, NetFlix, Keynote, and others.

Ok I have the IPAD comercials say we can do these things. I get the tools and BLANK can't do it. Hea Apple you are aware there other things in the world other than slides right am I wronge?

The VGA adapter will display nothing unless an app specifically supports displaying something. Apple's own apps generally do not show anything (except that you can watch youtube videos on the projector). You can't show the web browser, or your email, or your pdf files.

This is the biggest ripoff product in Apple's recent history. The value of this adapter is below zero.

One of the justifications to get an iPad for me was to use it for lectures. I knew that hauling around the iPad leashed to a projector wouldn't be ideal, but it certainly sounded like a possible alternative to a laptop. The limitations of this connector, combined with the "Keynote Extra-Light" for the iPad, render it practically useless for this purpose.
I used a tablet PC with a wireless connection to a projector a few years ago, but unfortunately it was rather flakey, and too heavy to hold for longer than ten minutes. Technology-wise it should be feasible to do something like this with an iPad, but what we have here is a step back, not one forward. At the very least, I'd expect the ability to mirror the iPad screen on an external display.

I teach the iPad to classs of seniors, and I must say the VGA display adapter works very well for me. I particularly appreciate its ability to rotate the VGA image In step with the orientation of the iPad.

However, there's another feature I would like to see. At present, the students can only see where my fingers are if I am typing on the screen keyboard. They cannot see what I am doing if I drag, swipe, pinch, spread, or twist an object on the screen.

Ideally, I would like a utility that positions and moves ghosted finger marks whenever I touch the screen in any way.

Thanks to the overly paranoid DRM, it's impossible to pay movies bought via iTunes on your monitor or TV. Maybe you should point that out before you charge my credit card

I was very disappointed with the limitations of this connector. It does not play movies, powerpoint presentations, email, web pages, and e-reader apps. I was going to use the iPad this semester to lecture graduate students on educational technology but now, I think i'll switch it up and call it, the limitations of technology in education.

Apple needs to have a big red sicker on this product warning how totally useless it is. We bought it and are retuning it ASAP. Why you might ask? Because you can do almost nothing with it other then look at your a slide show of your photos and watch a non DRM encoded movies (good luck finding one of those). So planing on using your iPad as a business tool with Keynote, Pages, Numbers and Safari, sorry your out of luck! Apple has crippled this connector so that it's useless so unless you just want to look at your photos on a TV or projector don't waste your money on this VGA adapter.

I'm not having a problem with it working on my iPad 2 with iOS 6. It didn't initially work because I plugged in the 30-pin connector BEFORE plugging in the VGA cable from my 32" monitor. However, disconnecting and reconnecting it to my iPad while the cable was still plugged in got me the result I expected - full mirroring and even plays movies from apps outside of the iOS Videos app such as Vudu, Netflix, etc! I'm quite pleased!

Our company purchased the VGA cable to link our iPad 2 with our projector and it works very well. The only draw back we have had, the connection to the iPad 2 is rather weak and tends to unplug itself when slightly moved causing loss of signal.