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No multi-user support? Meh.

by Yabood 5y ago

lucasyvas 5y ago
It's almost like they continue to add nothing of value on purpose because it's admission they screwed up - they should have a tablet with macOS by now, including this feature.
- threeseed 5y ago
  iPad is a multi-billion dollar business which is still growing. Must be hard for them to screw up this badly.
  - lucasyvas 5y ago
    Money is not the only metric for a product's success, and it's current growth is severely limited compared to where it could be. iPad and iPad OS are designed entirely to siphon money from an existing core user base, while offering the user no freedom or power. It may be an unbelievably slick consumption product, but it fails miserably at championing what a mobile computing device can be.
    - threeseed 5y ago
      In this case, revenue = device sales = popularity. So you may think that you know more about product management and how to sell devices than Apple but given their experience it's a pretty tall claim. Because freedom and power comes with tradeoffs. And many of those tradeoffs which come from multiple app stores, code execution etc are pretty unpalatable to most people.
theshrike79 5y ago
Multi-user support is _never_ going to be implemented in iOS devices. There is a slim chance for iPadOS. The amount of people who actually need a multi-user phone/tablet is a fraction of a fraction of the 600M userbase of Apple devices.
- 112233 5y ago
  huh, what do you mean by that? multiuser support in ios has been there for ages already.
  - theshrike79 5y ago
    So there is a an OS level interface to change between multiple users, each with a separate profile isolated from the others? Where?
    - 112233 5y ago
      https://support.apple.com/guide/mdm/shared-ipad-overview-cad7e2e0cf56/web https://support.apple.com/guide/mdm/shared-ipad-overview-cad... Basically, the OS level interface is there, and you are not allowed to use it if you are neither a school nor an enterprise. edit: i agree with your “won’t happen” sentiment, its just that this is a pure iOS licensing restriction.

No multi-user support? Meh.

by Yabood 5y ago

No multi-user support? Meh.

It's almost like they continue to add nothing of value on purpose because it's admission they screwed up - they should have a tablet with macOS by now, including this feature.

threeseed 5y ago
iPad is a multi-billion dollar business which is still growing. Must be hard for them to screw up this badly.
- lucasyvas 5y ago
  Money is not the only metric for a product's success, and it's current growth is severely limited compared to where it could be. iPad and iPad OS are designed entirely to siphon money from an existing core user base, while offering the user no freedom or power. It may be an unbelievably slick consumption product, but it fails miserably at championing what a mobile computing device can be.
  - threeseed 5y ago
    In this case, revenue = device sales = popularity. So you may think that you know more about product management and how to sell devices than Apple but given their experience it's a pretty tall claim. Because freedom and power comes with tradeoffs. And many of those tradeoffs which come from multiple app stores, code execution etc are pretty unpalatable to most people.

theshrike79 5y ago

Multi-user support is _never_ going to be implemented in iOS devices. There is a slim chance for iPadOS. The amount of people who actually need a multi-user phone/tablet is a fraction of a fraction of the 600M userbase of Apple devices.

112233 5y ago
huh, what do you mean by that? multiuser support in ios has been there for ages already.
- theshrike79 5y ago
  So there is a an OS level interface to change between multiple users, each with a separate profile isolated from the others? Where?
  - 112233 5y ago
    https://support.apple.com/guide/mdm/shared-ipad-overview-cad7e2e0cf56/web https://support.apple.com/guide/mdm/shared-ipad-overview-cad... Basically, the OS level interface is there, and you are not allowed to use it if you are neither a school nor an enterprise. edit: i agree with your “won’t happen” sentiment, its just that this is a pure iOS licensing restriction.