iPadOS 16 and still no multiuser support :-( Why can’t we use one iPad inside a family, with each user having his/her own apps, settings, bookmarks and so on? (Ok I know, Apple needs to sell an iPad to each one of us :-) )
It’s not designed for fast (enough) switching or maintaining “hot” data from multiple users simultaneously on the same iPad.
I can’t see that being the reason. The HW difference between the iPad and Mac are minimal.
My iPad's typically in the living room, if someone want's to quickly look up or show something, this would be ideal.
The regular user would be great for the rest of my family, especially when traveling. We're just not going to get extra iPads for everyone for relatively low time spent on the device.
1: https://mspoweruser.com/nokias-patent-restricts-android-mult...
EDIT: Bottom of article says Apple pays royalties to Nokia to use the patent so maybe they only want to do it for education to keep costs low?
I suspect the author entirely made up the "patent issue" to write this blogspam-like garbage, and that Google's decision to initially restrict the feature to tablets had nothing to do with patents.
This doesn't mean that a 1:1 relationship between a person and their phone / tablet isn't the common configuration - I'm sure it is - but it's fair to say that 'the rest of the world' has had this feature for nearly a decade.
As a sibling comment noted, Apple has developed this feature already in their 'the first hit is free' (aka the Education <sic>) version, so at this point it smells a lot like a plain old vanilla-flavoured marketing ploy.
So if I was Apple, I doubt I’d take the android tablet market seriously. Android mobile phones are viable alternatives but not the tablets.
Samsung's take on Android is, in my experience, dreadful.
I have accounts in 2 countries.
Some apps are only available on one or the other. To install (and some times to upgrade, but not always), I need to switch accounts. When I do that, I lose all my locally downloaded music, podcasts, etc. When I switch back, usually some app doesn’t, like Messages, or even Music.
I usually only notice that says later, by which time I might have missed a lot of things. It’s also a pain trying to sign out and back into one of these apps, nothing is obvious.