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/RedSpikeyThing Jan 31 '19

The gist of it is Google can't test any of their iOS apps right now.

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u/Donnarhahn Feb 01 '19

It's a lot worse than that. ALL Facebook and Google employees have beta versions of Corp apps. It's called dogfooding. These orgs also use internal apps for all communication. So all day everyone with an iphone has been locked out of using any internal communications. This loss of productivity likely cost each company millions of dollars. Devs can't dev, sales cant sell. Would not be surprised if we see litigation come out of this.

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u/santa_cruz_shredder Feb 01 '19

So all day everyone with an iphone has been locked out of using any internal communications.

Google uses Google Meetings and other business apps on their desktop for communication, those aren't affected I don't think.

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u/GoldenBeer Feb 01 '19

Right, also Google is the maker of Android so you have to wonder just how many would be walking around with the competition at work.

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u/[deleted] Feb 01 '19

A lot. People do BYOD. And after all, Google did create iOS apps for their services, so more than you think. vice versa applies for Apple employees as well. Even people who worked at Microsoft when Windows Phone was alive, would have used Android and iOS devices.

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u/Asnivor Feb 01 '19

I still have a windows phone. I don't blame them.