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Apple September Event: iPhone XS?

Source: Ars Technica   Writing after a very long time from a different workstation at a different company. (Yes, I left that company and yes, i'm writing while i'm at work. *F irst of all  I deserve a break and second of all  Shhhhhhhhhhh!!! * ) Decided to write this as soon as I heard that the Apple has released the official invite for their September Event which as you all know it's their hardware event. (BTW the event is on 12th September at 10 AM PDT) Basically many parties have predicted that they'll be releasing a new Apple Watch, iPhone, high end Mac Mini, and a low budget MacBook Pro. But in this post i'll just stick to the iPhone. WTH happened to iPhoneX So the Apple iPhoneX, which was released last year didn't meet their sales expectations mainly due to the price tag. As a result, Apple decided to launch low price editions of the devices (Thanks to China) due to this reason and hence now we enjoying the 9.7-inch iPad. So yes, as you guessed,...

Android: Unique ID Dilemma

Source: Device ID Despite the fact that I couldn't write anything in the last couple of months due to heavy workload with asshole of teams I decided to write again since I have faced pretty interesting issues over the months. One of that is a Salesforce related issue in Android (Another pretty good story that i'm not suppose to tell *wink*) where I have to come up with a solution which doesn't impact the live version, and during the approach I had to come up with a way where I have to create a unique identifier to identify each device. So in here I'll briefly explain the things I found during that journey. What are our options? If we ask this from most of the developers they might reply saying that we can use Android ID (AKA Android Hardware ID) for this and that's fine, I thought the same thing in the very beginning but I was wrong. So in here I'll explain what are our options, What is the key, what are the pros and cons (The usual sh...