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Re:Apple restores Google’s internal iOS apps after certifica... by innocentoldguy on Friday February 01, 2019 @12:56AM (#19052009)
Why? I think it is great that they closely monitor what goes into the App Store to better prevent malicious software. What’s a good case for not doing that?
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Re:Apple restores Google’s internal iOS apps after certifica... by sschueller on Friday February 01, 2019 @02:28AM (#19052320)
Freedom.

Apple doesn't only prevent malware but also blocks non-malware apps which they or some state may disagree with.

Do you really thing a smaller company would have gotten their access back after being caught doing what Google did?

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Re:Apple restores Google’s internal iOS apps after certifica... by rimliu on Friday February 01, 2019 @05:00AM (#19052926)
Well if that smaller company is banned for life it is their own doing.
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Re:Apple restores Google’s internal iOS apps after certifica... by sschueller on Friday February 01, 2019 @05:18AM (#19053033)
Facebook and Google should also be banned for life then but that won't ever happen.
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Re:Apple restores Google’s internal iOS apps after certifica... by Shish2k on Friday February 01, 2019 @06:16AM (#19053256)
> I think developers should be able to distribute outside of the app store

> I think it is great that they closely monitor what goes into the App Store

These two requests are not mutually exclusive

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Re:Apple restores Google’s internal iOS apps after certifica... by Redoubts on Friday February 01, 2019 @10:49AM (#19055035)
They non trivially interact.
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