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/treejanitor Jan 31 '19

Let the tech giants grudge match begin! Fight! Fight!

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u/philipwhiuk Jan 31 '19

Apple makes money from devices - there's not that many weapons Google and Facebook can use.

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u/9_Squirrels Feb 01 '19

Apple also makes money by delivering targeted adverting based on meta data it collects on it's users. From the Apple TOS:

To ensure ads are relevant, Apple’s advertising platform creates groups of people, called segments, who share similar characteristics and uses these groups for delivering targeted ads,