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Apple Blocks Google From Running Its Internal iOS Apps (theverge.com)
Apple has now shut down Google's ability to distribute its internal iOS apps, following a similar shutdown that was issued to Facebook earlier this week. From a report: A person familiar with the situation tells The Verge that early versions of Google Maps, Hangouts, Gmail, and other pre-release beta apps have stopped working today, alongside employee-only apps like a Gbus app for transportation and Google's internal cafe app. UPDATE: Apple has restored Google's Enterprise Certificate so its internal apps will now function.
Oh, you mean instead of following the letter of the contract you signed, you do something that violates that contract, and when you are caught, and the other party terminates their part of the contract, it is their fault?
You are a special kind of stupid, aren't you?
How was Apple supposed to know? The whole point of enterprise apps is that enterprises can run anything they want on any of their devices without going through Apple. The users who were involved in this stuff were installing provisioning profiles that identified their devices as belonging to Facebook and Google. Given that Apple isn't privy to employee records at Facebook and Google, they have no way of telling whether provisioning profiles are being abused, so again I ask: how was Apple supposed to know?
By all indications, Facebook and Google agreed to the same license as everyone else, and the license is anything BUT ambiguous, given that it's subtitled "for in-house, internal use applications" and then only gets more explicit about how it's intended to be used from there. I ran through a lot of the details about the license in a comment yesterday.
This should demonstrate to enterprise level purchasers the peril in becoming involved with Apple, who are historically an enterprise-hostile vendor.
Or perhaps it will demonstrate that Apple won't let them get away with abusing their internal use certificates that allow less restricted use of device resources in order for those licensees to take further advantage of public end users and violate Apple's software license agreements.