A multi-user Siri that recognizes the person talking to it would allow the voice assistant to become even more useful. There's a patent filed for that.
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Is Apple working on making Siri multi-user?
A multi-user Siri that recognizes the person talking to it would allow the voice assistant to become even more useful. There's a patent filed for that.
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No one uses Multi-User accounts on phones (and that’s a good thing)
Somewhere during the transition between Android Kit Kat and Lollipop, the Android blogs were awash in the discussion about multiple user accounts for mobile devices. If two (or more) people used the same gadget, they could have their own unique user ID’s and passwords. When logging in, their own customized homescreens and app collections would appear. People seemed really excited about this feature, but now on the cusp of Android N’s consumer facing release, multi-user accounts isn’t something much discussed, especially for phones.
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Do phones need multi-user support?
Earlier this month I wrote about why I’d use the heck out of multi-user support on my Android phone. That spawned quite a debate among Pocketnow readers as well as those in my social circles. Before we dive too deeply into that, let’s look at the history of multi-user support on Android.Back in the early days of Android 4.2 A New Flavor of Jelly Bean, we got our first taste of multi-user support – but it was limited to only tablets. Phones didn’t get the same multi-user capabilities. As it turns ...
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Why I’d use the heck out of multi-user on Android phones
“You know what I hate? Handing my tablet over to one of my kids to keep them entertained ‘for a few minutes’ only to discover that their ‘entertainment’ was changing my wallpaper, rearranging my icons, and messing up my tablet!”That’s what I said back in 2012 when we started learning about Android 4.2 A New Flavor of Jelly Bean. Since then, two out of the three tablets in my house has multiple logins. My wife shares her original Nexus 7 with our seven ...
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Multi-user finally coming to Android phones with release of Android L?
When it arrived in the fall of 2012, Android 4.2 Jelly Bean delivered a feature users had long asked for: support for multiple user profiles on a single device. Problem was, that mode was only accessible on tablets. Rumors speculated a lot about why that was, initially placing the blame on existing software patents that covered such a mode for phones, but then last summer we finally got ...
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