Idea - Google apps with sandboxed login on Android (for example, sign into Gmail, but check a box preventing the system from logging in to all the other apps like Google photos, for example).
abstract / draft / concept - Another Google app that could benefit from a "sandboxed login, separated / segregated from other Google apps" on android might be Gemini.
fictional observer: why?
Me: why? Well, because multiple user profiles
fo: multiple user profiles?
Me: yeah. Like on my android phone, I have a "main profile" and then I log out of that some times and login to a profile that's more designed for like, it's like an "alt user account" where things like ...
Fo: what
Me: I don't really want to say exactly
Fo: why
Me: because I don't want the narrative to sound dumb
Fo: is there a way you can explain why you want to discuss multiple user profiles and sound more legit ?
Me: sure. Ok. I'll give an example. Let's say a person has their work user account as a separate / segregated user account separated from their more personal user account etc...
Fo: ok that's reasonable right?
Me: yeah. Ok. So let's say that's the case, which is similar to my case, just not exactly.
Fo : ok
Me: so, yeah, one might want to be able to login to a *few* Google services from their "work" profile and vice versa, while not having android/ChromeOS auto login to all the other Google apps. So far, the three top apps that I'd want an ability to login "without signing in to other Google apps" would be:
1. Google chat
2. Gmail
3. Gemini
Google chat I used to communicate with family. That is the most important to me. It's like a web based sms replacement that's better than sms and email in multiple ways. It's got an edit button that works forever so users can completely control their digital footprint. Unlike emails and SMS which set everything in stone. Even then 15 minutes RCS gives is the same as no edit button. Any edit button that doesn't work forever is not worth it.
Fo: ok. But nobody uses multiple profiles except you.
Me: is that true?
Fo: I don't know.
Me: well, can you be more on my side and help me to make it so that I'm not the only one?
Fo: well you might not be the only one. But you may be, I'd assume, for lack of public data on this situation, let's say like 10 percent of people use multiple user profiles on phones.
Me: 10 percent is good. That's enough to be like “a thing”.
Fo: a thing?
Me: yeah like, growing up, I think i read that 10 percent of the population was xyz
Fo: xyz?
Me: I'm not gonna get into it, if that's ok
Fo: um…ok?
Me: let's just say, the xyz people, 10 percent is a pretty big number when you think what is 10 percent of 8 billion people. 800 million. So I'm gonna say 800 million people use multiple user profiles. And even if it *was* “only” half of that, that's still 400 million. That's bigger than the population of some of the top ten countries on earth. So, multiple user profiles, and safeguards for properly segregating/separating data between those profiles and allowing people to sign in to Google apps in a sandboxed manner that doesn't automatically log them into Google photos, for example, which could potentially be more…
Fo: what
Me: potentially like, …
Fo: what
Me: just like, I want the ability for certain Google apps to not automatically login across the system. This could be like and android15 feature. I guess they themselves (Google) don't have to market it, but, once it's live, once the feature/function is live, I think it would speak for itself and people would use it and show it off on social media/Twitter/ etc like how apple didn't advertise the Apple pencil shadow effect, but they made it anyway, and then social media channels highlighted the coolness of the function. Just like this security function could be a pretty cool solution to an ongoing issue with Android and Google apps.
Fo: ok.
Me: I mean, I think it kinda deserves more than just an “ok”.
Fo: well, what do you want me to say
Me: just, I don't know right now. I'm going to post this on mastodon, maybe blogger etc… hopefully enough folks will see it and agree with it and hopefully it will happen. Hopefully sooner rather than later.
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