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| Authored by: stegu on Thursday, July 04 2013 @ 12:34 PM EDT |
I tried to use someone else's tablet once. I can't even remember if it was an
iPad or some pre-4.2 Android device, but it clearly assumed that only one person
would ever be using it. It was a pain, involving lots of logging out of the
other person's accounts and logging in to my own, and repeating the procedure
separately for each and every service that required authentication. After a
short while I felt very uncomfortable giving the owner of that tablet the same
unwanted access to my accounts as he was inadvertently giving me to his, so I
returned it without having accomplished the task I borrowed it for.
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| Authored by: bugstomper on Thursday, July 04 2013 @ 06:13 PM EDT |
The only purpose for what AT&T did was to make it more convenient for the
typical user who would not have to strain their brain to remember their email
address and then strain their fingers to type it in the form.
In the unusual case that somebody browses to that page on somebody else's iPad,
they can click on a link that says "Want to log in using a different
different account? Click here". The vast majority of the users would still
get the convenience with no need to reveal email addresses to people who have
not logged in.
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