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My wife and I both have iphones and we each have two email accounts for a total of four email addresses altogether. I just ordered an iPad Air and while I'm waiting for delivery I started thinking about managing this collection of accounts. She has a hotmail web mail account as well as a work related Microsoft exchange account. I have a Hotmail web mail account as well as an AOL web mail account.
With two independent iphones this works just fine. While the iPad will technically be "mine" things will get very weird in our household if my wife can't just pick up the ipad and check her email while we are hanging out in the living room and it's just lying there asking to be picked up and used.
What other applications are affected by this issue - calendars and notes and messaging for example?
Thanks!
Pete D.

Frankly, sharing an iPad like that would be a disaster in my humble opinion.
Not only calendars, notes, reminders would be co-mingled, but so would bookmarks, iMessages, ...
I strongly recommend against sharing an iPad.

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