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I don’t think this makes sense. Sites already desperately try to get people to log in. I don’t particularly see it as an advantage for Apple if eg the Reddit w
by dan-robertson 3y ago
I don’t think this makes sense.
Sites already desperately try to get people to log in. I don’t particularly see it as an advantage for Apple if eg the Reddit website or some random online shop makes you log in. If Apple are interested in selling ads, I think they should not want to make it easy to track people on websites through logins as that helps their competitors.
I generally model Apple as preferring that you use (and pay for/in) some app rather than a website, and logins are less necessary for apps where you can store information about your session and don’t need to regularly prompt the user for passwords. I think Apple would rather you don’t have some separate account you can log into on a website to eg pay for a service without in-app-purchases.
I mostly think of passkeys as a better version of the password manager: allowing users to do what they already want in a more secure way. If there is some subtle business advantage it is maybe that users would make new accounts rather than using sign-in with Google/Facebook, though I don’t know to what extent those features are valuable to Google/Facebook.