Does the iPad support multiple users?
Another one of the most common questions popping up pre-release for the Apple iPad, is whether or not the iPad features multi-user support.
For those of you who envision a household iPad with support for multiple users and user profiles, the likely (though not definite) result will be some disappointment.
Though nothing will be confirmed until the iPad is released, there has been no mention of multi-user support and no evidence of support for multiple users in the iPhone 3.2 SDK (which the iPad will run at the time of its release).
If Apple is working on multi-user support for the iPad, they're keeping it hush-hush with little, if no, reason to do so. Chances are, they aren't.
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11 April 2010
4 hours 40 min
The current OS (3.2) does not support multiple accounts, nor does what was demoed of the upcoming OS 4.0. That does not preclude that there will not be multiple user accounts possible in 4.0 as the iPad version will not be out until early fall, leading to speculation that there will be additional changes to the iPad version of the Apple's Touch OS. Until then the only option is to wait and see.
had the same problem and thats all i found so far.
its still a beta and only for jailBroken ipad's
multiPad - http://www.themultipad.com
worth a look..
what about colleges - departments; any work team that's co-located; any group in which one soul might grab it for a presentation, someone else dashes off with it to a conference, another colleague takes it home for the week-end. We all need to load too many robust programs on our Apple laptops & workstations which we won't abandon to an individual iPad. We're not all going to buy another "precious" shiny object. We're good collaborators, we can pass the "ring" around our ring of folks -- design this lightweight easy to port thing for what we need -- a tool for our 'plays-well-with-others' sharing organizations.