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It’s a very good point. I think you are right that it will be an issue in the long term if things stay the same. Somewhere I hope this forces the other players
by hrktb 7y ago
It’s a very good point.
I think you are right that it will be an issue in the long term if things stay the same. Somewhere I hope this forces the other players in the field to react, to avoid Apple getting too much power.
I don’t see anyone else right now that can force app devs to support this scheme (for instance I saw countless signup pages that reject gmail’s + syntax, companies clearly don’t want to be filtered), nor that would be trusted for now by users to not abuse the situation.
Perhaps Microsoft could ? barely, as they for instance were sticking ads in their browser.
So, in a way I see Apple doing what only them can do, and hope it creates enough precedence for other minor identity managers to step in and being a more sane solution for the long run.
- inlined 7y agoMicrosoft already tried a single login platform. They were one of the firsts. It’s a hard product to land. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_account https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_account
- davidgould 7y agoIt's a hard product to land if no-one trusts you.
- BuckRogers 7y agoMaybe, but I trust Microsoft more than Google. The trust list, Apple > Microsoft > Google > Facebook.
- Nerdfest 7y agoIt's a pretty easy product to land when you control the hardware, the OS, the developers, and to a large extent, the users.