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Apple's position is that if you want to deploy apps onto the iPhone, then you must provide a way for the user to signup with Apple as the intermediary. This ac
by threatofrain 6y ago
Apple's position is that if you want to deploy apps onto the iPhone, then you must provide a way for the user to signup with Apple as the intermediary.
This actually increases user choices because for any app which has an existence outside the app store, users can now choose to either pay the conventional way or have Apple intermediate. Before users had to accept Microsoft's way or don't use Microsoft Office.
I'm okay with 3rd party app stores, but I wouldn't be okay with losing the option to signup through Apple, which is more what companies care about.
- throwaway13337 6y agoLeveraging a monopoly into requiring a specific sort of login practice that reinforces the monopoly is an absurd sort of consumer choice. If Apple was really benevolent here, they'd have an open login platform that could be decentralized and implemented by third parties. That would be a real beneficial choice to the consumer. Of course, that's not what they're doing because their goal is not to promote consumer choice. It's to reinforce their monopoly by requiring deep integration on the part of the app developer.
- schoolornot 6y agoThe fact that Apple is requiring devs to add "Sign in with Apple" if the app supports any other social login is such a blatant overreach. I'm as much of a capitalist pig as the next guy but enough with the bullshit.
- cglong 6y agoI would understand where you're coming from if Apple allowed apps to mention that other signup methods exist.