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> That is right in the wheelhouse of tracking a user across apps. The design is old. It probably predates facebook, so it's not been intentional, as your comme
by tgv 2y ago
> That is right in the wheelhouse of tracking a user across apps.
The design is old. It probably predates facebook, so it's not been intentional, as your comment might be interpreted. But it certainly seems ripe for abuse. I'm curious if it would actually be used for that, because any app that can access internet already has a better way to share information.
- LunaSea 2y agoFacebook predates iPhones by 3 years.
- jen20 2y agoNSNotificationCenter predates the iPhone by 13 years, though…
- varenc 2y agoI was interning at Facebook in '07 when the first iPhone was released. Can confirm! Someone was 3rd in line at the Palo Alto Apple store and brought it over to the office. Though iOS definitely predates 3rd party apps and the ad based economy. Which is a bit of a tautology.
- tgv 2y agoAccording to the docs, NSNotificationCenter already was present in Mac OS X 10.0. It seems to be present in NextSTEP 3.3, which was released in 1995 (http://www.cilinder.be/docs/next/NeXTStep/3.3/nd/Foundation/Classes/NSNotificationCenter.htmld/index.html http://www.cilinder.be/docs/next/NeXTStep/3.3/nd/Foundation/...).