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Given what the uber app does when it starts up (show you a map of your locations, with data from a few uber cars moving across it), I'd bet the app essentially

by iofj 10y ago

Given what the uber app does when it starts up (show you a map of your locations, with data from a few uber cars moving across it), I'd bet the app essentially contacts the servers immediately when it starts. The only this would get them is "how many times did a user try to get an uber without data connectivity" ...

lwf 10y ago
And even then, you could keep that record in local storage.
rhizome 10y ago
Contacting servers is one thing, logging in is another. No authentication conversation needs to occur if the auth model is based on access tokens like generic OAuth flow.