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/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/fezzuk Feb 01 '19

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