Can someone explain how Facebook or Google hiring testers willing to expose 100% of their personal usage via an opt-in, paid program impacts consumers? Why should we 'applaud' Apple for this? Isn't it perfectly reasonable for companies like Google and Facebook to run deep user testing?
Apple have different distribution methods for different use cases. Enterprise distribution is meant for internal company apps. Testflight is meant for test customers. Use any of these in a way that Apple doesn't approve of and you'll deal with the consequences.
Because Apple has frivolous restrictions on what users can do on their phones, and the violators knew this ahead of time. Rules are rules.
Apple is likely shooting themselves in the foot here. These companies' IT departments will no longer be able to support iOS devices for accessing intranet resources, which means no engineers will be using iOS devices as daily drivers, which means their iOS apps will fall further behind their Android apps in quality.
If you agree that privacy has a certain value (and Google and Facebook obviously do which is why they paid for invading it) then it’s just a matter of degree from this to selling your kidney.
The argument is somewhat moot, anyway. Apple has simply decided that privacy is a tenet of their value proposition, that value is reflected in their contacts granting in-house certificates, and these companies broke the terms of these contracts.
> Apple has simply decided that privacy is a tenet of their value proposition,
Yeah, that's just marketing. If they really cared, they wouldn't accept a 9 billion dollar payout per year to make Google the default search engine for IOS.
These aren't testers. They are end users. Plus as mentioned above the terms of the contract forbid giving enterprise certified apps to contractors anyway.
