Apple Blocks Google From Running Its Internal iOS Apps (theverge.com)

Posted by msmash on Thursday January 31, 2019 @09:50AM from the No-Mercy-Inc dept.

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.

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Re:Good to see by Anubis+IV · 2019-01-31 10:21 · Score: 5, Insightful

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?