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According to the story, Apple have stopped Google employees running Google's "Gbus app for transportation". So yes, it's about what Apple allows people to run o

According to the story, Apple have stopped Google employees running Google's "Gbus app for transportation". So yes, it's about what Apple allows people to run on their own devices.

curt15 8y ago
Since Gbus is presumably developed internally, what prevents the employees from installing the program via Xcode?
- q3k 8y ago
  Not everyone at Google has a Mac? Nobody wants to reinstall GBus every 3 days?
  - briandear 8y ago
    Why would you have to reinstall it every 3 days?
    - spurcell93 8y ago
      IIRC dev certs expire quickly, by design
      - seba_dos1 8y ago
        Yup. However, at least you don't really need a Mac for that, as there are external tools to resign and install ipa files.
      - saagarjha 8y ago
        Free certificates expire after a week. Standard certificates obtained from a developer program membership last for a year.
  - saagarjha 8y ago
    Seven days.
- dougdonohoe 8y ago
  60,000+ employees makes this unrealistic.
- cbhl 8y ago
  Probably something like this: XX% of Google employees are non-technical XX% of Google employees don't use Mac as their laptop platform XX% of Google employees have a locked-down Mac that isn't allowed to run XCode or locally-compiled binaries because their job role isn't in Engineering
- morpheuskafka 8y ago
  The employees would each have to spend $100 on a developer membership (sharing them is a good way to get more revokes).
  - kngspook 8y ago
    No, that's not necessarily for loading an app on to your device. It's only necessary for broader distribution.
    - morpheuskafka 8y ago
      You can only sideload up to a certain number of apps (3 IIRC), only for seven days at a time, and only using certain APIs (cannot for example use notifications), all of which would pose serious limitations.
- kngspook 8y ago
  From what I understand, it actually is a public app: https://www.tripshot.com/ https://www.tripshot.com/ https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/tripshot/id1007192056?mt=8 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/tripshot/id1007192056?mt=8
seba_dos1 8y ago
They can still run that app by signing it themselves with a developer account, although that's not a very convenient option. And no, this is still about what Google allows its employers to run on their corporate devices (and Apple now taking this right away from them), as users wouldn't be able to sign that app with enterprise certificate by themselves.
threeseed 8y ago
Google can make that app public. Or stop abusing the terms of the enterprise certificates.
- deleted 8y ago
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According to the story, Apple have stopped Google employees running Google's "Gbus app for transportation". So yes, it's about what Apple allows people to run on their own devices.

curt15 8y ago

Since Gbus is presumably developed internally, what prevents the employees from installing the program via Xcode?

q3k 8y ago
Not everyone at Google has a Mac? Nobody wants to reinstall GBus every 3 days?
- briandear 8y ago
  Why would you have to reinstall it every 3 days?
  - spurcell93 8y ago
    IIRC dev certs expire quickly, by design
    - seba_dos1 8y ago
      Yup. However, at least you don't really need a Mac for that, as there are external tools to resign and install ipa files.
    - saagarjha 8y ago
      Free certificates expire after a week. Standard certificates obtained from a developer program membership last for a year.
- saagarjha 8y ago
  Seven days.
dougdonohoe 8y ago
60,000+ employees makes this unrealistic.
cbhl 8y ago
Probably something like this: XX% of Google employees are non-technical XX% of Google employees don't use Mac as their laptop platform XX% of Google employees have a locked-down Mac that isn't allowed to run XCode or locally-compiled binaries because their job role isn't in Engineering
morpheuskafka 8y ago
The employees would each have to spend $100 on a developer membership (sharing them is a good way to get more revokes).
- kngspook 8y ago
  No, that's not necessarily for loading an app on to your device. It's only necessary for broader distribution.
  - morpheuskafka 8y ago
    You can only sideload up to a certain number of apps (3 IIRC), only for seven days at a time, and only using certain APIs (cannot for example use notifications), all of which would pose serious limitations.
kngspook 8y ago
From what I understand, it actually is a public app: https://www.tripshot.com/ https://www.tripshot.com/ https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/tripshot/id1007192056?mt=8 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/tripshot/id1007192056?mt=8

seba_dos1 8y ago

They can still run that app by signing it themselves with a developer account, although that's not a very convenient option. And no, this is still about what Google allows its employers to run on their corporate devices (and Apple now taking this right away from them), as users wouldn't be able to sign that app with enterprise certificate by themselves.

threeseed 8y ago

Google can make that app public. Or stop abusing the terms of the enterprise certificates.

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