Apple e-mail shows multi-user account feature for iPad

Apple e-mail shows multi-user account feature for iPad Apple's iPad could after get support for multiple user accounts must be trained e-mail purportedly fed to a developer from Apple's Worldwide Developer Relations group needs to be believed.

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

"After further investigation vendors have determined the is the known issue, and is really being investigated by engineering," the reply read.

That reply doesn't go when it comes to mention such type of feature will be coming, but comes through a curious time. Apple offers some weeks away taking the wraps off "the way ahead for iOS" at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference. The show is predicted to get the introduction ofiOS 6, the discharge that will likely coincide with Apple's next iPhone later in 2011.

Unlike Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch, the iPad can be pitched becoming device that is certainly more communal, yet like those other nexus 4 bumper case devices it remains linked to one single user account. But that wasn't Apple's original plan, per a report coming from a Wall Street Journal that ran just a couple of days before first iPad's unveiling.

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Citing sources, the Journal announced Apple put "significant resources" into making the iPad "intuitive to," going when considering to utilize built-in camera to acknowledge anyone using it. What went down instead was the first-generation model shipping and not using a camera, but for the next two generations to keep to the single-user model. Some app makers responded by using support for multiple users, nevertheless it's not the common.

Also worth mentioning merely major hurdle for turning the iPad into a device that operates for multiple users: storage. The iPad has only ever bought from three storage configurations (16GB, 32GB and 64GB), and adding a Retina Display regarding the third-generation model, some (however it is not all) applications have ballooned in space. Apple's also done particular things like increased the standard, as well as therefore the type and model, of video content iniTunes. Add in multiple users in relation to their own apps and content, and problems could arise -- things which may require workarounds before such type nexus 4 bumper of feature arrives.

Update at 2:20 p.m. PT: Instapaper developer Marco Arment rains on the rumor parade, noting that "known issue" mention is Apple's standard go-to response: "It's a questionnaire letter. It indicates nothing, but he was not your first person to earn that suggestion." (via The Loop)