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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