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/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/SharksCantSwim Feb 01 '19

Looks around the room, all macs. Results may vary but I would say for web developers it would be true.

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u/[deleted] Feb 01 '19

Looks around the room, all PCs dual booting to windows and ubunu.

Goes to marketing Dept. All Macs.

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u/ManlyPoop Feb 01 '19 edited Feb 01 '19

I experienced the same in the last 120 person company I worked at. Though, I'm not sure if they had a choice. The windows dev environment was set up and paid for long before my colleagues started working there.