Oh, AppleInsider. You are spoiling us with your wonderful journalism. And by ‘wonderful journalism’, I mean ‘inability to recognise generic emails from Apple and then write some garbage that sends the Apple blogosphere into a frenzy’. Or perhaps your actual ability to recognise such emails, in which case you were just trolling for hits. SHOCK! (Note that because I try to credit all my sources, I will still link to this piece, but will do so in the smallest possible way. . There.)

So what was all the excitement about this time? Multi-user support on the iPad! Someone filed a bug report that you can’t have multiple accounts on an iPad; Apple’s response stated the bug ID already existed and:

After further investigation it has been determined that this is a known issue, which is currently being investigated by engineering

“OMG MULTI-USER SUPPORT ON THE IPAD IS COMING”, yelled far too many sites. But here’s the thing: say you were to file a bug report that the iPad is precisely three per cent too shiny and really should be made of wasps, and, for some inexplicable reason, Apple didn’t delete this. Then, say someone else filed the same bug. Here’s the response you’d get from Apple:

After further investigation it has been determined that this is a known issue, which is currently being investigated by engineering

Perhaps more depressingly, you can then bet some idiot at an Apple rumours site would then run with: EXCLUSIVE! Next iPad to be made from WASPS, to cut down on screen glare!

More on this topic from Marco Arment, who adds that Apple’s bug reporter, Radar, could also do with a slap.