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You can't get a device UUID anymore I don't think.

There is also a web view/player I think.

There is now `[UIDevice identifierForVendor]`.

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

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.

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.

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.