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I don’t object to them doing it, but I do object to the fact that they have the ability to do it.

IMO, it is very, very wrong that Apple is judge, jury, and executioner in this case.

Also, in today’s world, this potentially could be disastrous, not only for the company affected, but also for the world at large, for example if Google depends on internal apps for informing employees about emergencies such as “hacking like activity on our servers or even “data center on fire”.



> if Google depends on internal apps

If Google depends on internal apps then they shouldn't have violated the terms of internal apps.


Google (or any company) wouldn't have a single point of failure for alerts like that. :P Those alerts would hit email, phone, etc. all at the same time.




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