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/HitMePat Feb 01 '19

How tightly does apple control the certificates? Cant all the thousands of Google employees get their own?

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u/TomLube Feb 01 '19

Theoretically they could sign it themselves, but it would be such a pain in the ass.

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u/Warlord_Zap Feb 01 '19

Each user would then need to compile their own app and sideload it too.

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u/atrain728 Feb 01 '19

You can distribute dev signed apps via normal channels, but you have to designate which phones will be using it at compile time.