[recursive]

Working as intended. Even the way you framed it. Every family member has a separate physically distinct iPad, paid for separately. It's never considered that two people might be able to use the same hardware, which is the question here.

[ectospheno]

We each have our own car too. Hard to share the things people use at the same time.

[recursive]

> Hard to share the things people use at the same time.

Yes, but if it's your goal to have fewer cars, then you'd make an effort not to need to use it at the same time. If that's not what you're trying to do, fine. My wife and I share a car. It's slightly inconvenient sometimes, but really not bad at all. For our particular life anyway.

So here we're talking about iPads. Some families need multiple devices for various reasons. Some don't except for the fact that iPads don't support accounts. No one's saying you would have to use them. But you're not allowed to.

[wffurr]

1 car for our family of four seems to work fine for us in the city. Hard to imagine people with different living situations.

I held off a while on giving my youngest child his own iPad because he and his brother were playing nicely together on one more often than not. It turned iPad time into social play-together time.

[NetMageSCW]

Wait until your kids are older.

[pjmlp]

If they are European, they learn to get by with public transport, bikes and such.

I was already on my thirties when I got my first car.

[wffurr]

At which point (9+) they can ride their bikes or take the bus.

[recursive]

What's the point here? Then you'll need another car?

Remember, we're comparing to iPads. Apple intentionally hobbles them to induce demand for multiple iPads. This isn't a question of being allowed to own multiple iPads/cars. It's a question of being artificially prevented from owning a single one.

The point isn't that you have to commit to being a single-car household for life. It's that at some points in time, you can be.

[overfeed]

> Hard to share the things people use at the same time.

How many TVs do you have in your living area?

[Jeremy1026]

TVs are traditionally a shared experience. But even still, I have 2 TVs for every person in my household.

[raw_anon_1111]

I’m 51 and I can’t remember ever going to a house with only one TV. Even my grandparents had multiple TVs and I definitely had one in my room since I was 4.

A quick Google search says that 50% of households had more than one TV in 1980.

[recursive]

I don't think I've ever lived in a house with more than one TV, except possibly when a college room mate kept one in their room.

I now live in a household of four, and these TV stats are blowing my mind.

[raw_anon_1111]

https://www.nielsen.com/insights/2009/more-than-half-the-hom...

[icedchai]

Same. I grew up in the 80's and we always had at least 2 TVs for a family of four. My sister and I both had small TVs in our bedroom once we were teens, so that was one TV per person at that point! To be fair, they were mostly used for video games...

[lossyalgo]

Are you being sarcastic? Why would anyone need 2 TVs, much less every person in the house?

[Jeremy1026]

I'm not being sarcastic. And I really don't think my household is that far above average. We have three "living room" type areas. One in each bedroom. One in my office. One in my wife's office. I'd wager the American average is >1 per person in the house.

Edit: Looks like there is some research to suggest that Number of TVs > Number of People in Household. 2.93 TVs to 2.54 people. https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/more-tv-sets-2-93-than-people...

[raw_anon_1111]

Before we downsized to a 2 bedroom condo (where we do have 3), we had 6 in our house - our bedroom, son’s bedroom, home gym, living room, wife’s room and guest bedroom.

[NetMageSCW]

How many phones do you have per person?