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Re:Let's Talk About Beacons by nfarina on Tuesday November 04, 2014 @04:49PM (#8559265)
Scanning for arbitrary beacon IDs is not possible on iOS by Apple's design. You could certainly do that on Android however.
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Re:Let's Talk About Beacons by orand on Tuesday November 04, 2014 @04:52PM (#8559281)
Interesting. So is it possible for Apple devices to dynamically exchange their beacon IDs amongst each other (perhaps via an app's back-end service) to enable my second scenario of devices being "paired" and monitoring proximity to each other?
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