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That's a great insight, to think beyonds the bounds of the app ecosystem itself. In a lot of ways the mobile is a tool to deliver a service. However, a company has to prioritize an…

More importantly than 'crushing their innovation brand' (which seems like a small consequence), he headed off a potential competitor who might enter the personal device ring. Well …

Hey guys - one of the creators of this here. I wrote a blog post summarizing the thing in case you prefer a less TechCrunch-ey version: https://blog.branch.io/branch-deepviews-the-…

Just a plug because I built it, but branch.io gives this service away for free. We open all the 'black-box' fingerprinting parameters (like match duration) for you to tune as well.…

Here's how to build it on your own. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15955798/ios-app-store-pa...

We just discovered that one a few weeks ago - It was then we realized that we had just dedicated our lives to the premise of an xkcd comic I disagree with your last comment as you …

I work at Branch (referenced in the NYT article) which tries to make it way easier for mobile devs to leverage better deep links to stuff in their apps. Making the analogy to deskt…

With any group of people, you always have a spectrum of talent and usefulness. I've worked with Stanford CS grads who would shock you with the inability to produce anything useful …

Ah interesting. We wouldn't be using it in every scenario, basically only scenarios where we believe there to be a match and want 100% confirmation. Thanks for sharing!

The IDFA has been blessed for this. All of our partners have been submitting their apps with that option checked without issue.

Unfortunately, there is a very low probability of the mismatch until we have effectively seen every device. As our linking service expands, that percentage gets lower and lower. In…