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Yeah all this device proves is they can easily enable user profiles on iPads and iPhones but they choose not to because fuck you give us more money.

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>this device proves they can easily enable user profiles on iPads and iPhones

At the risk of echoing the infamous Dropbox comment...was that ever really considered a technical challenge?

It's really common to see integrated iPads in all sort of kiosk/control panel applications. Afaik iPad has a dedicated kiosk mode which doesn't allow you to exit the running app. Android tablets too.

What's the infamous Dropbox comment?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

That is fascinating and funny! There is always a Linux guy ready to explain why UX/UI doesn't matter because they can technically solve the problem in 17 complicated steps.

Here's a different perspective.

https://zedshaw.com/blog/2018-03-25-the-billionaires-vs-bran...

What a bitter and unhinged post. To characterise Drew's obvious joke as "retribution" is farcical.

Zed Shaw isn’t especially known for even-keeled rhetoric. He got famous from “rails is a ghetto”.

Sam Altman "joking" at our expense? The resentment is well earned, and the fact HN users keep bringing it up to this day means the 2018 article was not unhinged enough.

Dang also echoes the main points of the article, albeit in a much less combatively cathartic manner:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29175816

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27067281

> He wasn't being a petty nitpicker—he was earnestly trying to help, and you can see in how sweetly he replied to Drew there that he genuinely wanted them to succeed.

> The criticisms he was raising turned out to be a non-issue in hindsight, but were on point in 2007

I recently talked about how I got an old iPod 5.5 off eBay because it fit all my usability needs. Celebrity linux hacker unsarcastically told me I should have built my own MP3 player with ESP32, an audio codec board, and micropython.

Thank you for asking, and thank you to the two people who responded to you (within a minute of each other!). I was unaware of this "infamous" comment, but it's interesting to see how it's aged over the past 19 years. Times sure have changed.

https://zedshaw.com/blog/2018-03-25-the-billionaires-vs-bran...

iPadOS specifically supports multiple users, including partitioning the total available disk space and sharing a slice to each of the accounts. Only possible for devices added in Apple Business Manager and managed in a supervised state with an MDM solution under Apple Device Enrollment (ADE) with a 'shared iPad' enrollment profile. You can even integrate Entra ID (Microsoft 365) for handling the login process on shared iPads, or use federated Managed Apple Accounts.

It's not intended for home users of course, because that could jeopardise sales in families.

Also: there aren't any really old iPads: Apple forces obsolescence. They could unlock the old devices and let users run whatever on there, but they prefer the ewaste route. Also because fuck you give us more money.

This device is neither iPadOS nor iOS, it's a bit like that one iPod Nano generation with touch -- an amalgamation of iOS and extremely closed apps: it doesn't have an App Store, the multiple users extends to just Apple apps and data it pulls off your (nearby) iPhone, and the extent of its extensibility is streaming CarPlay interfaces for some audio & video apps.

your example of how easy it would be is the device without an App Store

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