In particular with Blink, the app will actually recognize the monitor as a second screen, and use it at full resolution (as opposed to mirroring the normal iPad screen). With tmux, this means you can arrange as many horizontal and vertical splits as you can fit onto the monitor.

> You can plug an iPad into a giant external monitor using the lightning to HDMI cable

Or, on newer iPads, directly via the USB C connector. And apps can recognize that you have chosen to plug in a secondary display and suit their content to match on the other screen.

Can you link to the Apple developer docs on this?

How do you interface with it then? So many parts of most workflows still require using the touch interface.