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I'd like to be truly responsible and just turn my phone off, but I don't to allow for those few times when there actually is something important.
Interesting idea, but I don't see many use cases. Are people really handing their phones out that often? I only hand my phone to someone else when: * I've asked them to take a photo of me. * They're riding shotgun in my car and need to call a contact or navigate with info readily available on my phone. Neither situation is risk for people snooping around.
Also, some people just don't consider their phones private and don't understand why anyone else would. My parents or siblings sometimes want to flip through Gallery to see the newest pictures of my children, friends, or co-workers.
A couple misplaced photos can be quite the liability in a situation like that...
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Not all games have a separation of user data. Some games basically only have one save slot, so that starting a new game wipes out the save data.
This caused me to be beat upside the head with a Gameboy repeatedly when I was young when I hit "new game" on my cousin's Pokemon Red.
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But if the whole family could share it, they might only buy one instead of four.
Speaking as a father of a 3-year-old, a separate profile for him would save me an immeasurable amount of frustration. "Figure out which folder the program I want is in" becomes really tiring after about the 600th time.
Please make Android grow multi-user capabilities or give me ChromeOS in a tablet format.
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This caused me to be beat upside the head with a Gameboy repeatedly when I was young when I hit "new game" on my cousin's Pokemon Red.
If you were my cousin who did that to me, you wouldn't exist today, to put it lightly.
I'm more bewildered to why no tablets seem to have multi-user functionality. In my experience, tablets get shared far more often than phones.
I work for a tablet manufacturer, and I spoke to an Android product manager at I/O last year about this. According to him, this is a feature that pops up once in awhile, but they have a long list of stuff to do and this is just one of those things that always gets bumped out. From my perspective as a platform dev, I'd like to get into some of the technical problems with changing this, but I could end up breaking some…
"Why Don’t Smartphones Have A Guest Mode?" Because dealing with multiple profiles and/or different profile types is a fucking huge giant pain the ass and a monumental amount of work! Xbox has local, guest, live silver, and live gold accounts. Dealing with all the different profiles and switching between is a nightmare. Urgh, no thanks.
Wasn't this a solved problem... 40 years ago? At least?
The "two PINs" idea would also be great for when a police officer pulls you over and asks you to hand over and unlock your phone. With the proper encryption you could even have plausible deniability.
Haven't people suggested this with regards to TrueCrypt's hidden volumes, with "rubber-hose cryptography" being the most common answer, and "yeah, well, prove that this is your REAL phone unlock code" being the second most common.