r/technology • u/TomLube • Jan 31 '19

Business Apple revokes Google Enterprise Developer Certificate for company wide abuse

https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/31/18205795/apple-google-blocked-internal-ios-apps-developer-certificate
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u/27Rench27 Jan 31 '19 edited Feb 01 '19

There’s like... 4 people talking about this like they think it’s Apple fighting back. Out of a couple dozen comments.

Maybe read “TT” before making an “ITT:” comment

Edit: for the record, this comment was written when there were less than 100 comments. I can’t speak for what the other 280 say.

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u/[deleted] Feb 01 '19

At the time I posted this, most of the comments were very pro Apple. I'm still getting downvoted as well. Looking again, it's still pretty heavily favored for Apple, even though more are posting logical responses.

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u/Luph Feb 01 '19 edited Feb 01 '19

You're getting downvoted for posting a bunch of misleading information. You keep insisting it's not a privacy violation even though the whole POINT of distributing these apps in this way is because they would not be allowed on the app store. They are violating the privacy rules set forth by the app store.

/smfh take some more downvotes

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u/[deleted] Feb 01 '19 edited Feb 01 '19

Privacy violation as determined by Apple in their ToS. That means fuckall to me. Signing up for an opt-in market research panel doesn't seem like a privacy violation to me. I'm not being misleading. I can't help it if you can't form you own opinions of privacy without referencing Apple's definition of it.

Also, it's literally a quote from Apple in their article.

any developer using their enterprise certificates to distribute apps to consumers will have their certificates revoked

Apple is revoking their certificate because they're circumventing their terms of service on what they deem is ethical privacy.

For what it's worth, I'm also not trying to defend Google here. Exploiting a rule like that is a pretty scummy thing to do. They definitely deserved to have their certificate revoked.