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Re: Device ID

 

As i understand it they are not providing one unique id which is valid
across apps. So you can't correlate the use of one app with another.

Lucio.


On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 3:17 PM, Robert Park <robert.park@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> I don't see the issue here. They're replacing one ID with another. The
> headline makes it sound like they're leaving developers with no way to id
> users but that is not the case.
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 10:39 AM, Lucio Torre <lucio.torre@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>> Meanwhile, on Apple land:
>>
>>
>> http://www.macrumors.com/2013/03/21/apple-will-no-longer-approve-apps-using-unique-device-identifier-udid-beginning-may-1/
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>>
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>> On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 2:33 PM, Lucio Torre <lucio.torre@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>>
>>> Today i learned that we dont have a device id anywhere in our stack.
>>> This means that we need to either have the push daemon create a device id
>>> when talking to the service or pass the list of channels it wants to listen
>>> to. If not, we will end up having devices without the app installed
>>> consuming messages for devices with the app.
>>>
>>> Lucio.
>>>
>>
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