News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Overcast – A powerful yet simple iPhone podcast player. Parent comment

Re:Overcast – A powerful yet simple iPhone podcast player by jonny_eh on Wednesday July 16, 2014 @12:26PM (#8042881)
PocketCasts has the same feature without an account. The app can auto-generate a server account using the device's uuid.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Overcast – A powerful yet simple iPhone podcast player by ZitchDog on Wednesday July 16, 2014 @12:56PM (#8043065)
Take it from someone who has gone down that path, it's a support nightmare, especially when you want to allow cross-device sync. Much easier to just require the account up-front.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Overcast – A powerful yet simple iPhone podcast player by geuis on Wednesday July 16, 2014 @01:29PM (#8043257)
It may be easier from the engineering perspective, but its a major turn off for the user. Building good user experiences is often harder than the engineering part.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Overcast – A powerful yet simple iPhone podcast player by guywithabike on Wednesday July 16, 2014 @01:44PM (#8043368)
Overcast has a web client, too. If Overcast used the UUID, it wouldn't be able to give you the web client side of things easily.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Overcast – A powerful yet simple iPhone podcast player by robmcm on Wednesday July 16, 2014 @12:55PM (#8043057)
You can't get a device UUID anymore I don't think.

There is also a web view/player I think.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Overcast – A powerful yet simple iPhone podcast player by dsuriano on Wednesday July 16, 2014 @01:54PM (#8043426)
There is now `[UIDevice identifierForVendor]`.

https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/uikit/...

[ Parent | on HN ]