# Damn you Apple and your vicious, brilliant, decisions **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 29, 2010, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-apple-and-your-vicious-brilliant-decisions/565695 "2010-12-29T13:46:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Unintentionally\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unintentionally_blank/32/5418_2.png) [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2010, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-apple-and-your-vicious-brilliant-decisions/565695/1 "2010-12-29T13:46:28Z")
You make the first seriously successful tablet. It is truly awesome. But you only make it REALLY awesome when one enters their email/calendar/Facebook/personal settings. Then you make it not support multiple users. Meaning the whole family has access to one person’s email/calendar/Facebook. Thus ensuring further sales of more iPads. BRILLIANT! Bastards!:mad: This message brought to you by **Unintentionally Blank** , who discovered his wife put a passcode on her Xmas gift to keep his paws off it. ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2010, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-apple-and-your-vicious-brilliant-decisions/565695/2 "2010-12-29T13:55:05Z")
No, they will fix that in version 2 or 3. ---
**Author:** ![Unintentionally\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unintentionally_blank/32/5418_2.png) [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2010, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-apple-and-your-vicious-brilliant-decisions/565695/3 "2010-12-29T14:03:01Z")
After we buy one for each family member! Then we’ll have to buy another! BRILLIANT! ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2010, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-apple-and-your-vicious-brilliant-decisions/565695/4 "2010-12-29T14:18:19Z")
> [@Unintentionally\_Blank](#): > > After we buy one for each family member! Then we’ll have to buy another! BRILLIANT! If only we could imbed [images](http://blogs.citypages.com/blotter/brilliant.jpg)… ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2010, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-apple-and-your-vicious-brilliant-decisions/565695/5 "2010-12-29T20:44:35Z")
Lie down with dogs; get up with fleas. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2010, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-apple-and-your-vicious-brilliant-decisions/565695/6 "2010-12-29T20:57:29Z")
So, the point being that Apple found a way to exploit people with more money than sense? Haven’t Apple been doing that for most of their existence? ---
**Author:** ![Unintentionally\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unintentionally_blank/32/5418_2.png) [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2010, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-apple-and-your-vicious-brilliant-decisions/565695/7 "2010-12-29T21:06:59Z")
Not quite so obviously… ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tao_s_Revenge)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2010, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-apple-and-your-vicious-brilliant-decisions/565695/8 "2010-12-29T21:12:59Z")
Why not just root the thing? ---
**Author:** ![mittu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecd19e/32.png) [@mittu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mittu)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2010, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-apple-and-your-vicious-brilliant-decisions/565695/9 "2010-12-29T21:22:27Z")
> [@Bijou\_Drains](#): > > No, they will fix that in version 2 or 3. You won’t have long to wait for #2 if current theory is anything to go by. I was annoyed to find out that the whole MobileMe/FindMyiPhone thing doesn’t work on my 3GS, you need an iphone4. I guess I have been cast aside as far as they are concerned, ‘buy the latest product and we love you, but only until something new comes out’. EDIT: On a related note the whole applauding people as they leave the Apple Store with their purchases makes me sick to my stomach. I would never buy anything from there on principle, I want no part of such asshattery. ---
**Author:** ![Unintentionally\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unintentionally_blank/32/5418_2.png) [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2010, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-apple-and-your-vicious-brilliant-decisions/565695/10 "2010-12-29T21:30:36Z")
> [@The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](#): > > Why not just root the thing? Will rooting it give us profiles? I’ve jailbroken my phone, but haven’t bothered with the iPad yet (plus, it’s the Wife’s, so it’s not really mine to muck about with.) I can easily see the draw for apple not implementing the feature…hey, more sales…but in the case of my four member family, that makes it a _$2000_ iPad tax…I’m not quite willing to pay that. Sure, sure, Mom and Dad have their iPhones, and those aren’t really shared, and it’s not an issue there, but the iPad’s kind of a different beast. ---
**Author:** ![minor7flat5](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/minor7flat5/32/258_2.png) [@minor7flat5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minor7flat5)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2010, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-apple-and-your-vicious-brilliant-decisions/565695/11 "2010-12-29T21:50:23Z")
> [@mittu](#): > > I was annoyed to find out that the whole MobileMe/FindMyiPhone thing doesn’t work on my 3GS, you need an iphone4. Don’t know if you have an iPad or not, but as long as you have one latest-generation device, you can enable FineMyiPhone for all of the supported devices. In other words, I used my wife’s iPad to set up my free MobileMe account the first time and then activated it for my 3GS. ---
**Author:** ![jz78817](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jz78817/32/1028_2.png) [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2010, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-apple-and-your-vicious-brilliant-decisions/565695/12 "2010-12-29T21:53:21Z")
> [@Unintentionally\_Blank](#): > > After we buy one for each family member! Then we’ll have to buy another! BRILLIANT! you don’t _have_ to do any such thing, ---
**Author:** ![mittu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecd19e/32.png) [@mittu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mittu)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2010, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-apple-and-your-vicious-brilliant-decisions/565695/13 "2010-12-29T21:55:41Z")
> [@minor7flat5](#): > > Don’t know if you have an iPad or not, but as long as you have one latest-generation device, you can enable FineMyiPhone for all of the supported devices. > > In other words, I used my wife’s iPad to set up my free MobileMe account the first time and then activated it for my 3GS. Didn’t know you could do that, doesn’t help me though as I don’t have an iPad. I thought about getting one but given that it _might_ only be a few months until #2 comes along I figured I would wait. ---
**Author:** ![drastic\_quench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e36b37/32.png) [@drastic\_quench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drastic_quench)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2010, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-apple-and-your-vicious-brilliant-decisions/565695/14 "2010-12-29T21:56:53Z")
It’s a feature. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tao_s_Revenge)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2010, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-apple-and-your-vicious-brilliant-decisions/565695/15 "2010-12-29T22:08:25Z")
> [@Unintentionally\_Blank](#): > > Will rooting it give us profiles? I’ve jailbroken my phone, but haven’t bothered with the iPad yet (plus, it’s the Wife’s, so it’s not really mine to muck about with.) Well I was under the impression there was a [multiuser login app](http://www.themultipad.com/mutliPad_signup.htm), but it appears to be vaporware. Sorry. ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2010, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-apple-and-your-vicious-brilliant-decisions/565695/16 "2010-12-29T22:24:59Z")
So you can’t log out and re-log in as another user? ---
**Author:** ![Unintentionally\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unintentionally_blank/32/5418_2.png) [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2010, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-apple-and-your-vicious-brilliant-decisions/565695/17 "2010-12-29T22:39:11Z")
> [@PunditLisa](#): > > So you can’t log out and re-log in as another user? Not as far as I know…it’s all ‘one’ user, and you COULD add multiple email accounts, but I can think of several reasons (none involving infidelity) where you might not want the whole family seeing your email. (SDMB forum notifications, for example..y’all are PERVERTS!) ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2010, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-apple-and-your-vicious-brilliant-decisions/565695/18 "2010-12-29T22:40:47Z")
Damn you Apple your rotten to the core. ---
**Author:** ![amanset](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8dc957/32.png) [@amanset](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amanset)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2010, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-apple-and-your-vicious-brilliant-decisions/565695/19 "2010-12-29T22:45:55Z")
> [@mittu](#): > > EDIT: On a related note the whole applauding people as they leave the Apple Store with their purchases makes me sick to my stomach. I would never buy anything from there on principle, I want no part of such asshattery. I’m sorry what now? Seriously. We don’t have Apple stores here. What is this? ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2010, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-apple-and-your-vicious-brilliant-decisions/565695/20 "2010-12-29T23:01:08Z")
> [@mittu](#): > > EDIT: On a related note the whole applauding people as they leave the Apple Store with their purchases makes me sick to my stomach. I would never buy anything from there on principle, I want no part of such asshattery. Ew. I thought calling it a “Genius Bar” was bad enough. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-apple-and-your-vicious-brilliant-decisions/565695.md?page=2)