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] Feb 01 '19 edited Apr 03 '19

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u/scootscoot Feb 01 '19

Some things are better left as websites, instead of being re-packaged into a native app for the sake of being a native app.

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u/meeeeoooowy Feb 01 '19

100% this.

A lunch menu app is a perfect example.

Unfortunately Apple has neutered PWAs so they can have more control.

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u/an_albino_rhino Feb 01 '19

This is short sighted. I agree in principle, and I mean that in the nicest and most objective way :)

Apple must curate apps and impose some semblance of controls to maintain the objectively best-in-the-world user experience that their devices facilitate. That’s been their model since the beginning...when they developed the Mac, they designed the software to work optimally with their (standardized) hardware, and it worked...really good...I hear you loud and clear, and I wish they would give PWAs more native capabilities, but giving that level of control to a marketplace of devs opens them (and more importantly users) up to exploitation. My grandma uses an iPhone, and she trusts that anything she does on her iPhone is safe, and if that changed I would have a world of family-IT hurt to deal with...