Connecting bluetooth accessory to multiple devices

Bought the XGPS150 to work with my wi-fi only iPad2. It would have been a bonus if it could talk to two iPad's/devices at the same time, but it cannot.
Multiple devices can pair with it, but it can only communicate with one iPad/Phone/Touch at a time.
I can understand this with accessories like headphones or keyboards (maybe). But with a GPS device that mainly pushes data instead of receives data it would be nice to send to multiple devices at the same time.
Is this a limitation with the vendor? With the Bluetooth 2.0 specification? Fixed in Bluetooth 3.0 or still a limitation?
Thanks!

Bluetooth uses a master/slave protocol.  The iPad is the master.  Headphones, XGPS, keyboards are slaves.  All communication is between master and slave.  A master can have multiple slaves but a slave can have only one master.

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