[hnburnsy]

> They'll also never let the iPad run macOS, because if people could own one device instead of two, that would be bad for their profits. They'll keep them cleanly differentiated for as long as they can.

They also don't have profiles on the iPad because then families could share devices which would be bad for their profits. Instead it is one iPad per person.

[brookst]

You know some rich families! I know a half dozen families with shared ipads, and not a one where each person gets their own.

[flemhans]

Sharing an iPad feels weird to me. Denmark middle class chiming in

[wodenokoto]

Haha, was about to write the same.

[dleary]

I know a number of poor US families (on food stamps/WIC) who have a tablet per child. I think it is the norm, in the US.

A cheap android tablet only costs a couple hundred bucks. That's just not that much, even for a poor family.

And that buys years of 'childcare'.

[janstice]

Also shared tablets don’t really work as kids homework devices.

[schmorptron]

That functionality used to exist on Android, but I haven't seen it show up on the past two phones I owned. Does it still exist in stock and xiaomi just got rid of it for whatever reason?

[sigh_again]

It definitely still exists on AOSP, and most vendors still have it. Xiaomi did get rid of it. It used to be available, then only available if you "disable MIUI optimizations", then it's been entirely removed. Whether this is to force you to buy two phones, or simply as a result of how amateurish the software stack on Xiaomi phones is up to debate.

[a_JIT_pie]

Profiles available on my Oneplus 7 Pro and my Pixel 8 (that is running GrapheneOS though).