According to The Wall Street Journal, Apple will soon be releasing a new system to let developers know who's using their iOS apps. Anonymous sources have said that the company hopes this system will help app builders gather analytics while doing a better job of protecting user privacy. Unfortunately, none of the people interviewed seem sure how such a system would work. The most specific source said that Apple would "likely rely on a sequence of numbers that isn't tied to a specific device." Ideally, developers could identify individual users on an app, but no one could collate the data to tell who it belonged to.
Whatever the technology, it would replace the more common Unique Device Identifier or UDID, which is often used to track user...
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