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What I'm wondering is, what is it that's telling them these analytics are from a new device?

by cwilson 17y ago

olefoo 17y ago
Probably querying UIDevice. http://developer.apple.com/iphone/library/documentation/UIKit/Reference/UIDevice_Class/Reference/UIDevice.html http://developer.apple.com/iphone/library/documentation/UIKi...
gcheong 17y ago
They can determine the capabilities of the device running software with their analytics (e.g. OS version, camera resolution, display resolution, etc.).
- ryanwaggoner 17y ago
  Then we're missing a lot of details...
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blasdel 17y ago
Flurry provides a phone-home library that gets linked into your application. Apple seems to have been careful to avoid press over a new User-Agent showing up in logs, but I guess they didn't bother spoofing syscalls or using an app firewall.
- Timothee 17y ago
  And that's what surprises me a bit. Apple is known for being super-secretive but they don't think of filtering the network connections of their new device? Sounds like a big oversight. I'm not saying that this story is not true, and actually, maybe Apple is doing that knowing full well that there are good chances someone will notice it, creating more discussions around their upcoming announcement…
  - JunkDNA 17y ago
    I doubt it was an oversight. I suspect Apple starts to relax their procedures as they near an announcement. This allows a controlled flow of "leaks" to emerge and build buzz.
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- tptacek 17y ago
  Is the idea here that Apple has just now started testing the new product with actual iPhone apps? If the idea of the new product is that it runs iPhone apps, it would have been doing so in the shop for many, many months now.
  - blasdel 17y ago
    The idea is that they've just started testing it with these iPhone apps on an unperturbed connection to the public internet.
  - DenisM 17y ago
    Might have been their own test suites in the first stages. Besides we don't know if they are going to actually ship the product or only announce it.
  - joezydeco 17y ago
    If Apple expects the Wednesday announcement/press event at the off-site auditorium to go well they probably need to make sure the device works outside the Apple campus network, don't they?

What I'm wondering is, what is it that's telling them these analytics are from a new device?

by cwilson 17y ago

What I'm wondering is, what is it that's telling them these analytics are from a new device?

Probably querying UIDevice. http://developer.apple.com/iphone/library/documentation/UIKit/Reference/UIDevice_Class/Reference/UIDevice.html http://developer.apple.com/iphone/library/documentation/UIKi...

gcheong 17y ago

They can determine the capabilities of the device running software with their analytics (e.g. OS version, camera resolution, display resolution, etc.).

ryanwaggoner 17y ago
Then we're missing a lot of details...

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blasdel 17y ago

Flurry provides a phone-home library that gets linked into your application. Apple seems to have been careful to avoid press over a new User-Agent showing up in logs, but I guess they didn't bother spoofing syscalls or using an app firewall.

Timothee 17y ago
And that's what surprises me a bit. Apple is known for being super-secretive but they don't think of filtering the network connections of their new device? Sounds like a big oversight. I'm not saying that this story is not true, and actually, maybe Apple is doing that knowing full well that there are good chances someone will notice it, creating more discussions around their upcoming announcement…
- JunkDNA 17y ago
  I doubt it was an oversight. I suspect Apple starts to relax their procedures as they near an announcement. This allows a controlled flow of "leaks" to emerge and build buzz.
- deleted 17y ago
  [deleted]
tptacek 17y ago
Is the idea here that Apple has just now started testing the new product with actual iPhone apps? If the idea of the new product is that it runs iPhone apps, it would have been doing so in the shop for many, many months now.
- blasdel 17y ago
  The idea is that they've just started testing it with these iPhone apps on an unperturbed connection to the public internet.
- DenisM 17y ago
  Might have been their own test suites in the first stages. Besides we don't know if they are going to actually ship the product or only announce it.
- joezydeco 17y ago
  If Apple expects the Wednesday announcement/press event at the off-site auditorium to go well they probably need to make sure the device works outside the Apple campus network, don't they?