After pulling out Facebook enterprise certificate in a span of 24 hours and now the Apple Inc pulled important app-development tools from Google as the iPhone maker decided the internet giant breach its rules.
The Apple pulled out the Social network privileges on iOs devices from Facebook as it took advantage of an iOS enterprise program to collect data on users that push a threat to the user privacy.
Apple will offer these Enterprise certificates to large companies like Google and Facebook for the purpose of distributing apps internally, among the companies’ employees that facilitate them to work on iPhone apps without going through the usual app review process. Facebook and Google used this to collect data on user activity for internal research.
Apple found the Facebook who broken its rules and pulled the social media giant certificate yesterday and now the Google also in the same path where Cupertino giant pulled Google enterprise certificate today.
According to the Verge, Apple pulled Google’s enterprise certificate with development versions of the company’s apps now disabled. This mostly includes applications and updates that are not yet ready for public testing through TestFlight.
Employees of Google can’t access test versions of iPhone apps they’re making besides the development process, The internal tools are also halted related to transportation scheduling and food.
With the certificate revoked, iOS applications already installed through this process can no longer launch on iPhones and iPads.
As of now, these two giant companies seem to be actively working to rectify the situation. Google told The Verge that its “working with Apple to fix a temporary disruption of some of the corporate apps, which expect will be resolved soon”. Meanwhile, Apple told Buzzfeed in a statement: “We are working together with Google to help them reinstate their enterprise certificates very quickly.”
