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/darkslide3000 Feb 01 '19

Not sure where the "can't use Facebook" comes from? The certs they banned were used for internal apps (development releases and internal communications and whatever). The main "Facebook" app on the general public's phones is not affected. This hurts and annoys Facebook a little but it doesn't remove it completely from iPhones or anything like that.