Why #apple went to war with #facebook and #google this week

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Apple has disabled Facebook and Google’s internal applications after privacy violations were revealed, leaving Google and Facebook employees at a standstill for key operations. In other Apple news, the tech giant’s revenue declined over the holiday quarter, and it’s reportedly testing new iPhones with three rear cameras and a USB-C port.

This week on The Vergecast, Nilay Patel, Paul Miller, and Casey Newton reckon with Apple’s power move against Facebook and Google. Below is a lightly edited portion of that conversation.

Nilay Patel: World War 4 has begun. Apple, which is an important company that makes phones and laptops and software, yanked Google’s enterprise software certificate for iOS, which is the software certificate that lets…

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