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Desktop Android? Multi-user Android support is on its way

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Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
Aug 7, 2012

Android is great on smartphones and tablets, but it could work on the desktop? One critical missing part has been multi-user support, but thanks to clues in the code we now know that multi-user Android support is on its way.

SJV

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

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