Here’s another challenge: Create fun games to play in these flights. The games available are usually poor and slow. Is it a technical limitation such as too many screens and not enough processing power to go around? Or maybe no good HID (Human Interface Device) controllers? Touch-screens should be okay, especially for turn-based games, but maybe continuously pushing your finger against the screen would make the perso…
The trend is just to have you use an iPad or iPhone with local video and games available from the plane's Wifi. This pretty normal on US shorthaul US flights now, since those things are way better than anything built into the headrest.
The trend is to cut costs on domestic carriers; what you describe is just the excuse. When a flight has both IFE and this "iPad experience," I almost never see anyone using their own device. Even without the IFE, when people are entertaining themselves on their own devices, I'm skeptical that many of them are actually using whatever WiFi-driven entertainment monstrosity is available, as opposed to e.g. predownloaded Netflix content or Kindle books. In my experience it has never worked very well.
