Comment on Google promises a rescue patch for Android 14’s “ransomware” bug

• Racle@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I personally got couple use cases.

  Work profile: I can split my works stuff and personal very easily (and for security as personal apps cannot see or work with work stuff usually).

  This also helps if you want to get same app installed multiple times. Ex. I could install pokemon go and use two profiles same time with split screen.

  “true” secondary profile: like in desktop OS where you can create multiple profiles, this will “boot” phone to new profile and it has own partition and apps. Cannot interact with other “true” profiles.

  I use that with my child if I hand phone to her. She cannot get to my stuff (not even images or other data) and only has her stuff available.

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  • tsonfeir@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    So do you have a work phone number? Do you have different contacts? Do you just have a bunch of duplicate contacts?

    I’m really not seeing the benefit when you could just organize your work applications in a single area and use your notification settings to determine which contacts get what types of notifications when you are “work mode.” I assume android has that, since iOS certainly does.

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    • Racle@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      So do you have a work phone number?

      I don’t have work number currently. And I very rarely call with my phone to coworkers.

      when you could just organize your work applications in a single area

      You could do that, but you would miss some of the features. Ex. I use same browser on normal and work profile, but I have two icons (one for work, one for normal) to open browser. When I’m on my work profile, I’m logged in with my work Google account and it doesn’t interfere with my normal profile browser. Same thing for Gmail, calendar, contacts, Google docs/sheets etc. And if I ever want to get rid of works stuff on my phone, I just delete work profile.

      And for security reason when normal profile apps cannot interfere with work profile apps in any way. Ex. I can have one password manager on my work profile and another on normal profile and they cannot share information in any way and I can keep my work and private passwords separate.

      And like I previously said, this works for entertainment use also, as I can have two instances of same app with different login information (like pokemon go)

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