[Yabood]

No multi-user support? Meh.

[lucasyvas]

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]

iPad is a multi-billion dollar business which is still growing.

Must be hard for them to screw up this badly.

[lucasyvas]

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]

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]

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]

huh, what do you mean by that? multiuser support in ios has been there for ages already.

[theshrike79]

So there is a an OS level interface to change between multiple users, each with a separate profile isolated from the others?

Where?

[112233]

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.