Maybe you like passing your onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.ipadngravy.com');" target="_blank" title="iPad" href="http://www.ipadngravy.com">iPad out to friends. Maybe there’s always that one guy or gal asking if they can flick around the homepage and open an app or two. Maybe, just maybe, you’re the CEO of a company and store sensitive info on your i tablet that others could mess up. Or maybe you’re lucky (but really unlucky) enough that your family has an iPad that’s “for everyone.” iUsers solves some of the issues attributed to sharing a personal computing device by giving everybody their own account.
For all intent and purposes, each account is almost like a different iPad. Meaning that each has its own customized homepages, app data, etc. Every “iUser” gets what is close to their own fresh install of iOS that can be configured to their liking.
Well, it comes close enough to totally individual usage; there are a few catches. Everybody is still forced into having the same apps installed (though again, app data storage including saves is individually allocated and modified) along with the music and video library being a joint collection. Nonetheless, the value here for guest account creation and especially users with shared devices is immense since data is securer and experiences become more exclusive.
With Apple toting how families can share an iPad, it’s a no-brainer to think that a similar feature will make its way into iOS eventually. Really, it should have been there from the start simply due to the nature of the tablet. To their credit, there are complications with how apps would be shared and smart utilization of the iPad’s limited storage space so that MBs and GBs can be maximized.
Of course, Cydia is home to iUsers. So you will need to jailbreak your iPad first, but it’s a quick, painless process as long as you didn’t jump on iOS target="_blank" href="http://www.iphonealley.com/news/apple-fights-back-against-jailbreakme-with-ios-4-3-4-update">4.3.4. (A 4.3.4 onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.engadget.com/2011/07/16/ios-4-3-4-jailbroken-with-pwnagetool-on-ipod-touch-iphone-and-i/');" href="http://www.engadget.com/2011/07/16/ios-4-3-4-jailbroken-with-pwnagetool-on-ipod-touch-iphone-and-i/">jailbreak is possible, but not as easy as going to a website and kicking back while the process runs.)
Take a look at the video below to see the variegated user account action:
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