Remember how Apple banned Facebook's enterprise certificate this week, breaking Facebook's internal beta apps and employee apps? Now Apple has done the same to Google.
Apple has now blocked Google's enterprise certificate, one day after it was revealed that Google was using Apple's Enterprise Developer Program to distribute a data-collecting app to users. Google said yesterday that its Screenwise Meter app being distributing with an enterprise certificate was a "mistake" and it then disabled the app, but that hasn't stopped Apple from blocking Google's enterprise certificate today.
As a result of this block, early versions of Google apps like Gmail, Hangouts, and Google Maps that are being tested inside Google are no longer working. Also no longer working are Google apps for employees, like an internal cafe app. Google has told The Verge that it's "working with Apple to fix a temporary disruption to some of our corporate iOS apps, which we expected will be resolved soon."
This is a serious move from Apple, but it's not too surprising to see the company do it. Google was doing the same thing that Facebook did to get its enterprise certificate banned, and so Apple had to enforce the same rules for Google as it did for Facebook. "Any developer using their enterprise certificates to distribute apps to consumers will have their certificates revoked, which is what we did in this case to protect our users and their data," Apple said yesterday when it banned Facebook's enterprise certificate.
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