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The iPad doesn't need user accounts... everyone in your family needs an iPad! :) This sounds exactly like the kind of feature that Apple would carefully consid
by nlawalker 16y ago
The iPad doesn't need user accounts... everyone in your family needs an iPad! :)
This sounds exactly like the kind of feature that Apple would carefully consider and ultimately reject because it doesn't match their vision. The ability to have user accounts is just one more feature that makes everything more complicated for the user.
- crander 16y agoThe iPad shipped a year before the competition. Sure it doesn't have a multiuser operating system... it was based on smartphones. Apple faces engineering tradeoffs too. They shipped, they delivered, and they will add this if it makes sense when they can.
- martingordon 16y agoI have to agree with you. Apple won't saddle iOS with a stop-gap feature that won't be necessary in 5-10 years when iPads will be cheap enough that everyone will have their own. I would bet that Apple has a lot data from Macs being brought in for repair and from new setups that would indicate that only a small percentage of users actually use more than one user account on their Macs.