Apple has shut down Facebook?s ability to distribute internal iOS apps, from early releases of the Facebook app to basic tools like a lunch menu. A person familiar with the situation tells The Verge that early versions of Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and other pre-release ?dogfood? (beta) apps have stopped working, as have other employee apps, like one for transportation. Facebook is treating this as a critical problem internally, we?re told, as the affected apps simply don?t launch on employees? phones anymore.
The shutdown comes in response to news that Facebook has been using Apple?s program for internal app distribution to track teenage customers with a ?research? app.
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Apple fand einen eleganten Weg um Facebook gegen das Schienbein zu treten. Zuckerbergs Führungsriege tauscht spätestens heute ihr iPhone gegen ein Android.
Facebook employees told Business Insider that their colleagues at the company are „pissed“ and „angry“ about the news and looking for someone to blame, alternately attacking Apple or their own colleagues working on the project for the setback. [?]
Affected apps include internal builds of Workplace, Facebook’s internal version of Facebook for employee communications; Workplace Chat; Instagram; Messenger; „and other internal apps like Mobile Home and the Ride app.“ (The versions of the apps used by ordinary people aren’t affected.)
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