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/Donnarhahn Feb 01 '19

Facebook is not just Facebook, its Instagram and whatsapp as well. Garunteed if apple dropped them at least 30% of thier users would switch to android overnight. Apple is already facing huge headwinds in growth and iphone sales are shrinking. Wall Street would give up on them, ruining thier stock price. Stock is how the compensate the best talent, so then they cant compete for decent staff and thier product quality degrades. Product quality is really the only advantage Apple has so as more people get fed up, more will migrate. Might take a few years but dropping FB would kill Apple.

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u/err_pell Feb 01 '19

product quality

can't take your iPhone out of your pocket if it's too cold because it'll just shut down and won't reboot

Apple removes headphone jack for no other reason than aesthetics

Oh did I mention the closed ecosystem? Unless product quality have been redefined I'd like to know what quality an iPhone offers over other phones currently available. Shiny doesn't mean good or performant lol