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While people are debating whether Apple should have the power to revoke certificates and disable such apps, I for one am glad that in the instances where this h
by newscracker 7y ago
While people are debating whether Apple should have the power to revoke certificates and disable such apps, I for one am glad that in the instances where this has been made public, they’ve all been shady apps meant to mislead and abuse people with a broader aim to subvert human society itself.
Look at the previous well known cases about this same decision — Facebook tracking people’s every move with a “VPN” software, and Google doing the same (though on a smaller scale) with its own “VPN” app.
These apps and app makers knew about the restrictions on the App Store, and yet they proceeded to bypass it through the enterprise program because the app makers (or those specific teams) and the apps are shady end-to-end. AFAIK, both Facebook and Google pulled the offending apps and decided not to go ahead with them on iOS. But they did continue (again AFAIK) with those on Android.
While we can hope that such bad publicity helps expose such massive threats to people around the world, there’s not much that can actually be done without regulation.
- saagarjha 7y ago> they’ve all been shady apps As nice as it is to see these apps be pulled, I would be more comforted if Apple were applying their rules uniformly instead of going after companies after the supposedly shady behavior makes the press.
- cwyers 7y agoHow else was it supposed to work in this case? The whole point of the story is that Clearview was bypassing Apple's review process by using a signing key meant for distributing an app _internally_ to distribute the app to third parties outside of the store. Apple couldn't know about the misbehavior prior to disclosure because the whole point was to keep Clearview outside of their review process.