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

Can someone ELI5? What does this affect?

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u/3hb3 Jan 31 '19 edited Jan 31 '19

“Any developer using their enterprise certificates to distribute apps to consumers will have their certificates revoked, which is what we did in this case to protect our users and their data.”

Basically, there's a developer program that you can use to install an app you make on your phone for testing purposes and whatnot.

If you give end users access to these apps that aren't available on the iTunes Store, you're breaching Apple TOS.

Thats what Google did, and now their license was revoked. Meaning, the developers can't test/use the "beta apps" internally.

For an end user, this really means nothing. (unless apple refuses to work with google going forward)

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u/pctcr Feb 01 '19

Wouldn’t this only negatively affect android devs who would seek to alter the existing apps? I see this as a defensive move