It's not THAT weird. Lightning can't carry HDMI at all so even Apple's official adaptor is essentially setting up an Airplay connection over USB and has an ARM SoC to handle it. I'm guessing 3rd parties can't do the same trick without Apple's blessing which results in scary seeming workarounds.
> I'm guessing 3rd parties can't do the same trick
There are lots of third-party Lightning to HDMI adapters for cheap on Amazon that work as a clone of Apple's with no need for any software. Whatever this cable is doing is out of the ordinary even for knockoffs.
Do you have a source on that? I ask because it’s genuinely such a cool thing but I can’t find anything about it online even though I have seen this mentioned before.
