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iOS 6 addresses this (system account management) for FB and Twitter. The vast majority of Google account holders only have one account, you and the average HN
by coob 14y ago
iOS 6 addresses this (system account management) for FB and Twitter.
The vast majority of Google account holders only have one account, you and the average HN user are atypical.
- notatoad 14y ago>The vast majority of Google account holders only have one account as google apps for business and schools becomes more and more popular, this becomes more and more wrong. Tons of non-technical people have a personal gmail account and a school/work one.
- coob 14y agoAnd more do not.
- rogerbinns 14y agoOver time people are far more likely to accumulate more accounts. The longer someone has been on the net the more accounts they are likely to have. Making life difficult for this group of people doesn't seem sensible. I love this article about an ecommerce site and requiring people to register: http://www.uie.com/articles/three_hund_million_button/ http://www.uie.com/articles/three_hund_million_button/ Note one statistic: Later, we did an analysis of the retailer's database, only to discover 45% of all customers had multiple registrations in the system, some as many as 10. That puts the order of magnitude of people having more than one account around half. That of course doesn't mean that people have multiple Google accounts, just multiple accounts but Google is becoming increasingly pervasive being the email provider for companies, universities, organisations etc.
- rogerbinns 14y agoBut they don't address it for Dropbox, Skype or random other services out there.
- te_chris 14y agoWhat kind of half-assed excuse is that for not implementing a good feature that's proven to work?