<story><title>Apple blocks Facebook from running its internal iOS apps</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/30/18203551/apple-facebook-blocked-internal-ios-apps</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rock_hard</author><text>Wonder what’s gonna happen to Google and others who distribute their research apps the same way?&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;support.google.com&amp;#x2F;audiencemeasurement&amp;#x2F;answer&amp;#x2F;7573812?hl=en&amp;amp;ref_topic=7574346&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;support.google.com&amp;#x2F;audiencemeasurement&amp;#x2F;answer&amp;#x2F;757381...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>jon-wood</author><text>This seems entirely legitimate. Facebook were using Apple&amp;#x27;s support for enterprise distribution based on having a corporate certificate on your device, designed to allow distributing internal apps that don&amp;#x27;t make sense on the App Store proper, to distribute an app to their users - presumably because they knew it wouldn&amp;#x27;t make it through the approval process for doing distribution using TestFlight, which is what is meant to be used for this sort of app release.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TheKarateKid</author><text>Google and others have not been flagrantly caught breaking the rules in the past and warned directly by Apple, like Facebook has.</text></comment>
<story><title>Apple blocks Facebook from running its internal iOS apps</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/30/18203551/apple-facebook-blocked-internal-ios-apps</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rock_hard</author><text>Wonder what’s gonna happen to Google and others who distribute their research apps the same way?&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;support.google.com&amp;#x2F;audiencemeasurement&amp;#x2F;answer&amp;#x2F;7573812?hl=en&amp;amp;ref_topic=7574346&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;support.google.com&amp;#x2F;audiencemeasurement&amp;#x2F;answer&amp;#x2F;757381...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>jon-wood</author><text>This seems entirely legitimate. Facebook were using Apple&amp;#x27;s support for enterprise distribution based on having a corporate certificate on your device, designed to allow distributing internal apps that don&amp;#x27;t make sense on the App Store proper, to distribute an app to their users - presumably because they knew it wouldn&amp;#x27;t make it through the approval process for doing distribution using TestFlight, which is what is meant to be used for this sort of app release.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sidewaysloading</author><text>&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;techcrunch.com&amp;#x2F;2019&amp;#x2F;01&amp;#x2F;30&amp;#x2F;googles-also-peddling-a-data-collector-through-apples-back-door&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;techcrunch.com&amp;#x2F;2019&amp;#x2F;01&amp;#x2F;30&amp;#x2F;googles-also-peddling-a-da...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;TechCrunch at least caught on.</text></comment>