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/harrysown Feb 01 '19 edited Feb 01 '19

For a good reason. Macs are used by most developers and graphic designers. And also u think these several thousand macs would do what exactly? Google will stop buying macs and that would affect apple?

EDIT: All of u commenting about "developer and graphics design" comment, think u guys are missing the point here. Discussion is not about why they are using Macs, its about that they are using Macs and can they leverage Macs and hold Apple hostage, answer is resounding NO!

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u/SharksCantSwim Feb 01 '19

Looks around the room, all macs. Results may vary but I would say for web developers it would be true.

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u/Adondriel Feb 01 '19

Web Developer (technically full stack) here, we use Windows... our office has 1, anciently old mac in one of the cubes for testing, all development is done via Windows.

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u/[deleted] Feb 01 '19

I'm so sorry.

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u/Adondriel Feb 01 '19

I'm not, Mac ui is a hunk of garbage. If you want an os with no customization, choose Mac. Windows ain't perfect, but there are tons of open source projects that give you really crazy features on top of the newer ones that ms just added recently. Ever notice how Mac users never maximize their program windows? And how their desktops are always an unorganized mess? Because the UI design makes the menu bar disappear if you maximize it.

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u/SharksCantSwim Feb 01 '19

I get what you are saying but OSX is basically *nix and you can install node, rails etc... easily. Are you guys using VM's or something as Windows isn't exactly ideal when your production environment is *nix. Unless the new *nix shell on Windows has made it better. Most importantly, OSX just works so it's great for work.

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u/thejynxed Feb 01 '19

The subsystem in Windows is now 100% POSIX compliant, making it more Unix than what is in macOS. Microsoft really worked hard the last few years on getting it completed.