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Avidan Chen commented on CB-49:
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OK. Understood. I thought this would be good for other platforms because it's
simple to implement and protects the user's privacy, but if you think
otherwise...
But if Apple is offering identifierForVendor - why not use it? According to the
description, this has the exact functionality of the previous UUID
implementation - uniquely identifying a device for us, minus the privacy issues.
If Apple is now replacing [UIDevice uniqueIdentifier] with [UIDevice
identifierForVendor] surely they won't ban applications using the [UIDevice
uniqueIdentifier] in iOS 5 when there's no alternative...
So maybe device.uuid could return [UIDevice uniqueIdentifier] in iOS 5, and
[UIDevice identifierForVendor] in iOS 6? We would need to adjust for users
switching between iOS 5 & 6, but it'd be a one time change to the UUID for us,
instead of getting a new UUID for every installation, which is useless to us.
> UUID replacement
> ----------------
>
> Key: CB-49
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-49
> Project: Apache Cordova
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: iOS
> Environment: iOS 5
> Reporter: Shazron Abdullah
> Assignee: Shazron Abdullah
> Priority: Blocker
> Fix For: 1.6.0
>
>
> reported at: https://github.com/phonegap/phonegap-iphone/issues/238
> by: https://github.com/sandstrom
> As you might have read iOS 5 will remove the UDID
> (http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/19/apple-ios-5-phasing-out-udid/).
> This is an excellent alternative and it would be nice if you would implement
> something along these lines to keep the functionality. The idea of hashing
> together with the bundle id is great, because it makes it impossible to track
> across applications, which is what apple wanted to fix (although it can be
> circumvented that would only anger them, and tracking across apps isn't
> required for most apps anyway).
> https://github.com/gekitz/UIDevice-with-UniqueIdentifier-for-iOS-5
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