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I think that this is mostly to force people toward AppleID/iCloud as a universal method of authentication, as well as a reaction to the Germany and South Korea
by ethank 15y ago
I think that this is mostly to force people toward AppleID/iCloud as a universal method of authentication, as well as a reaction to the Germany and South Korea lawsuits over location data.
It makes sense that Apple wants iCloud to be the defacto method of cross-device and application authentication.
In my time doing iPhone apps in the music business, I had many ideas of how to use the UDID for aggregated statistics and data, none of them entirely holy from a "own your data" perspective.
So mixed: as a product developer, the UDID was handy to have. As a consumer, I would rather my AppleID (something I can change/cancel) be tied to it.
- kennywinker 15y agoSounds good. Show me how to use iCould/AppleID as authentication in my app. Oh, wait... you can't? Mostly kidding. Deprecating the UDID seems like a good thing, as the #1 use was advertising. It'll be annoying for developers, but not that bad... you just assign a UUID on first run. No big deal.
- gte910h 15y agoIf you're talking about the NDA, yes, that's true. But Yes, go read the iCloud docs, I think this is the point of this as well.
- sanj 15y agoI'd find this laudable if the AppleId was something that was programmatically accessible. It doesn't appear to be.
- danilocampos 15y agoDoes it need to be? Store a unique identifier to the AppleID and use it to look up the account as needed.