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To other developers, this is an inherent risk of working under somebody else's rules.

Yes, but the alternative might be something like a cesspool of everybody squirting out their UDID either in plaintext or using encryption with an easily findable key in the app -- resulting in lots of counterfeiting of UDIDs and potentially lots of bad things enabled by that.



You're right, there are pros and cons to both approaches. The web isn't perfect.

Personally what I'd like to see is a system like webintents.org taking off. I way of linking sites through services, not just hyperlinks.




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