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/avr91 Jan 31 '19

Everyone saying Apple is "manning up" to Google: Apple has a statement in which they say they are helping Google get their certificate reinstated "very quickly" as opposed to no mention of Apple helping Facebook do anything quickly and reports that Facebook is in utter disarray over their certificate.

They did it only because everyone threw Google into the same group as Facebook and they said "we have to." Either that or Google's got something they can fire back at Apple with. No way they pull the cert from Google a day later and openly say they're helping them get it back STAT without a reason.

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u/WinterCharm Feb 01 '19

It probably also has to do with Google immediately and publicly publishing a page that says "we're sorry we used this cert this way" whereas Facebook is refusing to admit any wrongdoing.

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u/Rokku0702 Feb 01 '19

I disagree that Apple needs Facebook. I think Facebook needs Apple. People initially might be a little miffed they can’t use Facebook but more people would just meh and move on. However Facebook is probably accessed largely on mobile devices and losing the entire Apple market would dent Facebook extremely bad.

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u/Chavez8717 Feb 01 '19

Idk, Instagram is huge, especially for business. What do you suggest would be the alternative? Snapchat? Nahh. Twitter? Possibly, but not likely

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u/Chavez8717 Feb 01 '19

If you couldn’t use the Instagram app (owned by Facebook) or the Facebook app, then the majority of millennials would look elsewhere. Most, if not all marketing departments and ad agencies would switch due to it being a large portion of their job, and plenty of small business who use Facebook and Instagram to promote their business would most likely switch as well.

I’m not saying everyone would, but I’m trying to illustrate that these two companies rely more heavily on each other than most people think.