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Here’s a probable explanation of what Uber was & wasn’t doing when it tricked Apple

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<p>We learned yesterday that Tim Cook almost pulled Uber from the App Store over the way it was <a href="https://9to5mac.com/2017/04/23/tim-cook-reportedly-threatened-to-remove-uber-from-the-app-store-in-ceo-meeting/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">tracking iPhones[/url] and tricking Apple engineers. Uber had seemingly found a way to ‘fingerprint’ individual iPhones even after the app was removed, and had taken steps to try to hide this behavior from Apple – one of many questionable business practices the ride hailing firm has made in recent years.</p>

<p>Mr. Kalanick told his engineers to “geofence” Apple’s headquarters in Cupertino, Calif., a way to digitally identify people reviewing Uber’s software in a specific location. Uber would then obfuscate its code from people within that geofenced area.</p>

<p>The <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/23/technology/travis-kalanick-pushes-uber-and-himself-to-the-precipice.html?partner=rss&amp;emc=rss&amp;smid=tw-nytimes&amp;smtyp=cur&amp;_r=1&amp;referer=" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">original NYT piece[/url] suggested that Uber was somehow able to track iPhones even after they had been erased, but well-connected John Gruber has come up with (https://daringfireball.net/2017/04/uber_identifying_and_tagging_iphones) what seems like a more probable description of what the company was and wasn’t doing …</p>
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