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Secret iOS business; what you don’t know about your apps

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Re: Secret iOS business; what you don’t know about your apps

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Excellent use of Fiddler... I'm going to try this on a few apps that have seemed terribly slow, even on wi-fi. I take that back: I need to use this with every app that I've been semi-trusting.

For development, this seems like a great catch-all tool to make sure expected best practices are actually working........ or if someone completely ignored them / forgot to implement.

Re: Secret iOS business; what you don’t know about your apps

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As a developer, I am guilty of using flurry too much. But its just so damned useful to be seeing what your users are up to with your app! I am addicted to checking my flurry console every day and watching the event logs, looking at session lengths.. even the world map of users is something I can look at longingly every morning.

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Quite funny from a chap who has google+, twitter, digg and facebook button on his page. At the very least, the facebook one tracks users even when they are logged out.

He does make a good point, re developers not caring about anything hidden behind the scenes. Good to see them being named and shamed.

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post #3

As a developer, I am guilty of using flurry too much. But its just so damned useful to be seeing what your users are up to with your app! I am addicted to checking my flurry console every day and watching the event logs, looking at session lengths.. even the world map of users is something I can look at longingly every morning.

Actually, I find that to be creepy. You are basically stalking your users.

Re: Secret iOS business; what you don’t know about your apps

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Quite funny from a chap who has google+, twitter, digg and facebook button on his page. At the very least, the facebook one tracks users even when they are logged out. He does make a good point, re developers not caring about anything hidden behind the scenes. Good to see them being named and shamed.

"Quite funny from a chap who has google+, twitter, digg and facebook button on his page."

He appears to be using Blogger. Are those buttons forced on everyone using Blogger or is that something he would have added himself?

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post #3

As a developer, I am guilty of using flurry too much. But its just so damned useful to be seeing what your users are up to with your app! I am addicted to checking my flurry console every day and watching the event logs, looking at session lengths.. even the world map of users is something I can look at longingly every morning.

Actually, I find that to be creepy. You are basically stalking your users.

s/users/anonymous devices/

Re: Secret iOS business; what you don’t know about your apps

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Thankfully iOS 5 does not allow UDID sharing between different apps: http://www.tuaw.com/2011/08/19/ios-5-deprecates-udid-as-iden...

> iOS 5 does not allow UDID sharing

From the linked article:

> First off, let's clear up what it means for Apple to 'deprecate' this identifier. A deprecated function or software component is not yanked out immediately; it's simply been flagged by the developer of the platform (or app, command line tool, what have you) as something that will be going away in the future, eventually.

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