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		jayfuerstenberg on March 22, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: iOS developers: Say goodbye to UDIDs Access to MAC addresses will likely never go away. Also, if you don't need to identify devices per se, you can fallback on a generated GUID which you persist via NSUserDefaults. It'll identify the user for the lifespan of that app install on the device.

ryanpetrich on March 22, 2013 [–]

I suspect access to MAC addresses will go away at some point—it has the same privacy concerns as UDID.

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