You're right! Quite literally it needs 1 device per user, but how to budget for that?
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You're right! Quite literally it needs 1 device per user, but how to budget for that?
I think that expandable storage and removable batteries are overrated. But to most Android users I know, it is paramount. Its such an important thing, that the ones I know don't even have an SD card or an extra battery. When I ask "Why do you value a removable battery but not have spare?," the response is: "Because I need a way to reset the device when it locks up."
I would've told them you can reset your device simply by turning it off if you run into a case when an iPad locks up. Do they ever add the cost of the additional battery to the price of their purchase?That's absolutely mental. Sounds a bit like Microsoft circa 2005 - they will make a proper touch-centric OS when they need one because without it they sell more than the rest, in one day they sold 10 times what Apple sold...
... When I ask "Why do you value a removable battery but not have spare?," the response is: "Because I need a way to reset the device when it locks up."
I prefer a removable battery so that when it doesn't hold a charge that well, I can replace it my self for $30 instead of paying Apple $120.
Ifaddresses this, they'll take a long hard look at what people are trying to solve here, and realize that people don't want multiple accounts, they want to better compartmentalize their activities - and
The problem with multiple accounts for multiple users is there's just one device among them, creating consternation when they both want it. We live in a world increasingly dominated by multiple devices per user, not the other way 'round: I sit here surrounded by not one computer (broadly defined), but six; hardware is getting cheap enough that there is little reason for one device for multiple people.
I agree. If you haven't seen how BB does it, take a look at it. It is pretty slick and allows the user to switch between accounts with a single swipe. Of course this is set to one account split among a business and personal accounts.
But the same can be said about desktops and laptops. A lot of houses only have one computer with multiple accounts per computer.
I am hoping apple gives us something to what the users are asking for.
If they earned more money, they could buy iPads for each of their kids. Simple.
And money grows on trees. Everyone who asks for a raise at work gets it. All companies are generous with bonuses. People don't have large families. Whatever.
We share one iPad all of the time. And yeah, I have biz stuff on it. Mail and messages are the only real deals so I am the only one that does that. For the others it is a convenience device. Watch or stream something, look something up. Whatever. Logging in. Logging out. Bleh. Can do that on the iMac.
These ads are [bleeping] stupid, as usual. They aren't accurate and only tell half the story. I like the idea of monitoring, but actually I'd rather just use the parental controls in iOS. Monitoring is like watching hours of CC footage to see who snuck the cookie from the kitchen, I'd rather just lockup the cookies and not worry about it.
This is just like walking onto the Hyundai lot and buying a Genisis. Sure it looks just like a Mercedes, but it's still a Hyundai underneath and will last and perform accordingly.
This is just like walking onto the Hyundai lot and buying a Genisis. Sure it looks just like a Mercedes, but it's still a Hyundai underneath and will last and perform accordingly.
Exactly they expend so much energy trying to knock the competition that their message is diluted and it just becomes a kind of advert about their competition rather than a platform for the benefits of their own product.
True. iPhone, iPad...what makeS them great is portability so you have them everywhere you go. For your own personal use at anytime when you want to. Sharing accounts not a must feature, more like a after thought.
How we interpret any given advertising campaign (cheeky and playful vs. bitchy and whiney) is going to depend a great deal on where we happen to stand. I know lots of people viewed Apple's PC Guy/Mac Guy ads as insufferably supercilious, which they certainly were, but a lot of people liked them all the more for that reason. All of these ads are intended to affect us at some primal level, so we should not blame any one company for hitting us in the gut in way that doesn't happen to work for us, when they are all trying to do the same thing in the name of flogging their products.
My feeling is MR does way too much cheerleading for the home team, and I say that as a loyal Apple customer of 30 years, stockholder for over 15 years, and a member of this forum for more than ten years (not to mention, at one time a very public critic of Microsoft). If MR wants to be taken seriously as a source of Apple journalism (and I know they do), then freely blending news items with such openly partisan spin will never do. These lapses into fanzine-style journalism undermines their credibility, and I can't imagine for a moment why they'd want to do that.
You will probably find that people with less disposable income would not let their kids anywhere near their iPad multiple accounts or not.
You will probably find that people with less disposable income would not let their kids anywhere near their iPad multiple accounts or not.
true that. I don't have an ipad, but I wouldn't want anyone in my famly handling it if I did.
This option is available for the ipad! Just go to the store and ask for usb/sd plug!
This is in no way simple. Consider this:
1: Space is taken on the drive for each user.
2: iCloud backups, for each user or the whole device?
3: Ability to tether with one or severel pc's macs?
4: Family of four, one device, who's gonna have it through daytime? I use mine for work, so I can't leave it at home in chance my wife needs it.
Multiple user accounts is fine for a PC.... But the iPad or generic tablet is not a PC.
Just my thoughts.
Microsoft is just lost
Two things. 1) The voice actor is horrible, this ad just sounds bad. 2) This is what Microsoft thinks are advantages to selling the Surface 2? They had to say free apps for the iPad and then made a point about voice recognition and background noise Take a look at "voice recognition" on Surface, yes, this is what they link to from the Surface main site: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/using-speech-recognition
Two things. 1) The voice actor is horrible, this ad just sounds bad. 2) This is what Microsoft thinks are advantages to selling the Surface 2? They had to say free apps for the iPad and then made a point about voice recognition and background noise Take a look at "voice recognition" on Surface, yes, this is what they link to from the Surface main site: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/using-speech-recognition
I guess you never heard Jobs bash Microsoft or his good friend Bill Gates publicly then?
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How did Microsoft lose credibility with Windows 7? It was the most popular operating system ever made.
Or how insecure Apple users are to get bent out of shape over an advertisement from a competitor.
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And Walmart sells Apple products.
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Not just that. What if two users want to have the same content? Most people probably want to share music, photos, contacts, settings, movies, and/or (most importantly) apps between users. And then you have the problem of someone leaving apps running and hogging resources while another user has it. No, too much of a PC solution.
Should be one user account with support for multiple Apple IDs for purchasing stuff (including IAPs). Maybe developer APIs for separate user data in some apps.
You got me on number 1. Valley Girl speak used to be confined to Southern California (where it was bad enough), but it seems to have gone nationwide in recent years. Pronouncing "guest" as "gast" and "protect" as "protact" is bound to annoy those of us over a certain age, but it's so common now that I can't lay it at Microsoft's door.
Wow. You just made the same 'rush to judgement' that you're chiding me for.
I said that I could tell right away that someone wasn't girlfriend material, and you were upset by that and you could tell right away I'm an awful boyfriend. Seems like the pot calling the kettle black.