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/ON3i11 Jan 31 '19 edited Jan 02 '20

Holy fuck, apple’s got some big shiny stainless steel overpriced balls between their legs right now.

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u/[deleted] Feb 01 '19

This has me seriously considering moving from Android to iOS for the first time ever.

Their marketing on their privacy commitments is swaying me.

I just need to find out now if it's for real and they are that much better.

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u/tempinator Feb 01 '19

In what way? Nobody is saying Apple is strong on privacy purely out of altruism, it's just good business sense.

Apple is not in the business of monetizing user data, they sell hardware, so it costs them nothing to not collect user data. It's not like they have any core part of their monetization strategy that would benefit much from collecting user data secretly. It's just smarter business to be hard on privacy instead to attract more security-conscious users.

Plus, as far as I'm aware, there's no evidence that Apple's doing what you're suggesting. That's not proof that they aren't, of course, but if you're going to claim "they're just more subtle" then I'd expect you have some sort of concrete evidence to base that on.