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On the technical side, the wifi scanner portion of this hack runs as a background process to passively determine when the phone gets near his house. And backgro
by zacharydanger 18y ago
On the technical side, the wifi scanner portion of this hack runs as a background process to passively determine when the phone gets near his house. And background processes on the iPhone are a heartily disallowed by Apple.
On the pure speculation side, I think you would have to be a lunatic to try and push this kind of hack through the App store's bureaucracy. And I don't imagine his particular setup is common enough to warrant it either.
- comatose_kid 18y agoThanks - I missed that part. I figured there was no scanning going on until he pressed a button in his app (of course, now that I think about it, that would be a pretty poor user experience). Apple really needs to get over the background app limitation -> a notification API isn't enough to solve this kind of problem.