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		danilocampos on Aug 19, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Apple phasing out developer access to the UDID in ... But will it break lots of apps? Assuming access to the UDID – and absolutely nothing else – is... dumb. What happens when users change devices, for example? I'm having a hard time imagining any large number of apps that are that reliant on this one thing. Even OpenFeint had provisions to handle non-UDID-based account authentication.

gte910h on Aug 19, 2011 [–]

Sometimes users have different things on different devices.

Hell the requirements for auto-renewing subscriptions pretty much FORCE you to track udids.

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