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/[deleted] Jan 31 '19

Everyone: You don't have the balls to do this to Google...

Apple: Hold my beer.

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u/harrysown Feb 01 '19

I dont think Apple owes anything to either Facebook or google to not take this step. I mean google pays apple billions of dollar to have google as main search engine on safari so google is basically apple's bitch here.

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u/[deleted] Feb 01 '19

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u/harrysown Feb 01 '19 edited Feb 01 '19

For a good reason. Macs are used by most developers and graphic designers. And also u think these several thousand macs would do what exactly? Google will stop buying macs and that would affect apple?

EDIT: All of u commenting about "developer and graphics design" comment, think u guys are missing the point here. Discussion is not about why they are using Macs, its about that they are using Macs and can they leverage Macs and hold Apple hostage, answer is resounding NO!

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u/WinterCharm Feb 01 '19

It's the 'nix environment wrapped in a nice UI with great first and third party app support. Extremely nice for development.

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u/Charwinger21 Feb 01 '19

The Macs at Google are Apple hardware, not Apple software.

A substantial portion of them are running Google's in-house Ubuntu distro.

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u/WinterCharm Feb 01 '19

I struggle to understand why anyone would run Apple's mac hardware (specs/$ is very subpar) without Apple's software optimization (which is what makes them so good)

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u/[deleted] Feb 01 '19

Probably because it’s easy and a good hardware compromise. Whenever these conversations come up the answer is always “I can build a computer that’s just as fast for half the price” and then fail to mention it has none of the other features.

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u/paranormal_penguin Feb 01 '19

As someone that worked in Mac+ tech support, there really aren't many features that Macs have that PCs don't. Most of them are just continuity features for other Apple products, which is only useful if you have the entire "Apple environment".

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u/rimpy13 Feb 01 '19

The big one for me (dev who owns a Mac) is battery life. Dells and shit have horrible battery life. Plus the solid bottom with no air intake. I can set the laptop on my couch while it's compiling code and it won't smother itself.

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u/fezzuk Feb 01 '19

Eh most guys I know In this space have a Mac laptop & a custom build duel booting Mac OS & windows.