Let’s make our internal systems depend on the good will of an outside company that is marginaly a competitor.
The worse part is there has to be someone that KNEW they where in violation.
FB seems to have a culture of is okay to be scum if we get what we need since we can always just say sorry.
Given the timeline outlined in the TechCrunch article it seems practically certain to me that they intentionally used the Apple EDP infrastructure to circumvent Apple's ban on literally the same app.
What's the alternative for internal-only apps?
Apple, the maker of the hardware, is also a stakeholder in users’ privacy. They are not obligated to assist Facebook in the undermining of users’ privacy. If their stance on privacy does not meet Facebook’s requirements, Facebook is free to develop their own phone to run their own apps.