It appears that Google much like Facebook before it has left the “sin bin” as Apple has restored the company’s access to enterprise certificates. The ones that got them into so much trouble when they were caught using them to sideload applications outside the app store. This was confirmed by Tech Crunch and by this tweet:
Googlers now have their ios apps back btw, all is well with the world. https://t.co/QPJ3FWoFeS
— Mark Bergen (@mhbergen) February 1, 2019
I would have liked to have been a fly on the wall of that conversation as one has to wonder what was said and what Google had to do to make nice with Apple. In any case, like the tweet says, all is well with the world. Except that it isn’t as I fully expect other companies to be “sin binned” by Apple as it’s a safe bet that Apple is taking a very deep look at their enterprise certificate program to find anyone more companies who are flouting the rules.