Category Archives: Technical

OpenUDID reaching critical mass adoption

By Yann Lechelle | Published: April 25, 2012

OpenUDID adoption has accelerated in the past few weeks and seems to have reached a sort of critical mass. In fact, a study by Fiksu shows OpenUDID as the most widely adopted “universal” alternatives (i.e. one that does not presupposed prior agreement between parties). The picture featured on the OpenUDID GitHub (below) shows a variety of [...]

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OpenUDID: A Tale In Open Source Netiquette

By ouriel | Published: March 28, 2012

Lame and inelegant. This was our reaction when we discovered that a launch partner of OpenUDID, Crashlytics, decided to create an alternative to the UDID called SecureUDID. It’s not so much about the code and the product, but rather the process and the lack of disclosure. The issue here is really about Open Source project [...]

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OpenUDID - now is the time!

By Yann Lechelle | Published: March 25, 2012

We’ve covered this issue before, preemptively. But now is the time to act! Some reports have emerged that Apple is now massively rejecting apps that still use the “[UIDevice uniqueIdentifier]” a.k.a. the UDID (Unique Device IDentifier). This means that developers have two choices: drop using this entirely, or find a replacement. Some have gone the [...]

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Inter-app communication and the future of app (re)discovery

By Yann Lechelle | Published: January 23, 2012

  This post is fairly technical in nature, but also fairly accessible. Inter-app communication is still in its infancy. Indeed, as powerful software publishers would have it, each app or each suite of apps would attempt to lock users into a unique file format to achieve a sort of monopole. This is clearly what Microsoft [...]

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