Apple says it revoked Facebook's Enterprise Certificate yesterday used to distribute the Research app outside of App Store, before Facebook could shut it down
but I should have said it's unclear if that means the Google Play Store proper, or if we're talking about a sideloaded Android app. My apologies. Brian Fung / @b_fung : That Facebook's response consisted of (1) an unapologetic statement and (2) yanking the research app from Apple's App Store while leaving it up on the Google Play Store (!!) suggests Facebook doesn't get, or is unwilling to confront, why what it did was objectionable to people. M.G. Siegler / @mgsiegler : The most damning thing about this latest Facebook fiasco is using Apple's enterprise distribution system. Companies used to do that to side load before Apple relaunched TestFlight. Was it to get around the user number limits? Regardless, it looks shady! http://techcrunch.com/... Whitney Merrill / @wbm312 : If you violate the trust model certs are based on, the owner must revoke. http://twitter.com/... Steve Troughton-Smith / @stroughtonsmith : Considering how long it would take to get a new enterprise cert, if accepted, this could really screw with Facebook's internal workings if all of their internal iOS apps and betas stop working http://twitter.com/... Shira Ovide / @shiraovide : I've been critical of Apple's micromanaging of the App Store, but this time they're 100% right. And Facebook must have known it was blatantly violating Apple's rules. http://twitter.com/... Emanuel Eggberg / @emanuelmaiberg : there's nothing wrong with our research app, also we are removing our research app from iOS http://www.theverge.com/...