Apple e-mail hints at multi-user account feature for iPad

Apple e-mail hints at multi-user account feature for iPad Apple's iPad could one day get support for multiple user accounts needs to be e-mail purportedly shipped to a developer from Apple's Worldwide Developer Relations group is to be believed.

Apple Insider on Monday posted an answer an unnamed developer received from Apple after requesting a company add support for multiple user accounts on theiPad.

"After further investigation because of determined which the works as a known issue, and that's becoming investigated by engineering," the reply read.

That reply doesn't go as long as to detail an amazingly feature will be coming, but comes in the curious time. Apple is a few weeks away taking wraps off "the future of iOS" at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference. The show is expected to bring the introduction ofiOS 6, the release that will likely coincide with Apple's next iPhone later right now.

Unlike Apple's iPhone and itouch, the iPad has been pitched being device that may more communal, yet like those other devices it remains stuck just using a single user account. But that wasn't Apple's original plan, reported by an investigation belonging to the Wall Street Journal that ran just a few days before the first iPad's unveiling.

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Citing sources, the Journal told us that Apple put "significant resources" into making Nexus 4 Hard Case custom nexus 4 case the iPad "intuitive to say," going as far as to employ a built-in camera to recognize you using it. So what happened instead was the first-generation model shipping wthout using camera, but for the next two generations to with a single-user model. Some app makers responded by having support for multiple users, however it is not the coffee quality.

Also worth mentioning is actually major hurdle for turning the iPad perfect into a device that is effective for multiple users: storage. The iPad only has ever bought from three storage configurations (16GB, 32GB and 64GB), through adding a Retina Display with a third-generation model, some (however it is not all) applications have ballooned larger. Apple's also done offers like increased Wholesale nexus 4 case necessary to resist, and thus the type, of video content iniTunes. Include multiple users together with their own apps and content, and problems could arise -- everything designed to require workarounds before a very feature arrives.

Update at 2:20 p.m. PT: Instapaper developer Marco Arment rains concerning the rumor parade, noting which your "known issue" mention is Apple's standard go-to response: "It's a form letter. It implies nothing, but he was not the 1st person to provide that suggestion." (through Loop)