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But how is iBeacon proprietary anyway? It's just a static BLE advertisment of a UUID. Anyone can do that.
by Timmmmbob 12y ago
But how is iBeacon proprietary anyway? It's just a static BLE advertisment of a UUID. Anyone can do that.
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- 0x0 12y agoI think these guys had a bunch of ibeacon utilities for ios and osx, as well as detailed docs on the protocol online, but they were recently pulled, at least from homebrew. Did Apple intervene?
- justina1 12y agoThe spec for iBeacon is proprietary and the name is trademarked (http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4803:h5eavx.2.1 http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4803:h5e...). IIRC, Apple even went so far as to revoke iBeacon usage from companies that tried to make an Android library (Radius Networks, the creators of this spec, being one of them).