Amazon's new Kindle tablet may find favor with families with a new
FreeTime feature that boast of multi-user support, a tech site
reported.
CNET said the multi-user support
restricts access to certain accounts —a boon for parents who let
children use the tablet but not with full access.
"Think how commonplace this is for traditional personal c
omputers. Mac
or Windows, both platforms allow multiple people to use the same
machine, logging in with different accounts that are linked to their own
settings, data, applications and perhaps even special restrictions. But
for tablets, it's been the dark ages," CNET's Danny Sullivan said.
Amazon unveils Kindle Fire tablet.
The new Amazon Kindle Fire HD 8.9' is unveiled at an event in Santa
Monica, California on Thursday (Friday, PHL time). The larger,
high-speed Kindle Fire tablet which costs $499 will challenge Apple's
dominant iPad and intensify a battle with Google Inc and Microsoft in
the booming tablet arena.
Reuters/Gus Ruelas
Sullivan said this may be a game-changer for Amazon's Kindle Fire aside
from the pricing, dual WiFi antennas and Dolby Digital Plus sound.
He added Amazon has taken a big step forward in improving things for families with Kindle FreeTime.
"It's not perfect. It's not even true account switching. But it's a
good start, and one that I hope we'll see both Apple and Google follow
with," he said.
FreeTime
FreeTime allows parents control over what their children can do on a Kindle Fire.
With the feature, each child can have his or her own profile, which has
access only to the videos, books, games and apps that parents have
selected.
FreeTime also allows parents to set
time limits for how long the children can read books, play apps, watch
videos or use the Kindle Fire.
"Kindle FreeTime
is a good start toward this path, for tablets. Let's hope it keeps
evolving on the Kindle Fire and spreads to other tablets (there are
hints multi-account support is coming to Android), so that we can have
user accounts like we're used to on our PCs and Macs," Sullivan said. — TJD, GMA News
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