In the latest video of our Ask a Dev series, iOS Engineer Andrew Frederick breaks down the different reasons for using beacons and geofencing.
"Beacons and geofencing try to achieve a similar goal. They both want to identify a user's proximity to a particular location," says Frederick. "These two technologies compliment rather than conflict with each other. If you're building a location aware app, you can pinpoint your users down to the inch".
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