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Yeah, this is awesome. The devil's in the details though, do we know anything about exactly how they plan to support external providers? I'm cautiously optimist

• awinter-py 3y ago
  I mean apple has a tried and true playbook for supporting external providers, I'm not worried charge them random % of revenue, force them to funnel all transactions through apple, let random junior employees disable the 3rd party's bugfixes for reasons(tm), and eventually refuse to license new entrants because there are too many flashlight apps I'm not worried
• ezfe 3y ago
  > Password manager apps can save and offer passkeys on iOS, iPadOS, and macOS. No reason to believe this would work differently than the existing affordances for 3rd party apps to offer passwords, which works well today
  • eep_social 3y ago
    So I will be able to copy-paste some string from my password manager to my browser in order to complete the passkey handshake? Or does this mean that my password manager must support my browser of choice on my platform of choice with some opaque plugin that cannot be disabled (eg, 1pw on macos today)?
    • ezfe 3y ago
      On iOS for passwords, this is a systemwide system that allows any app to register as a password provider and any password field to receive those passwords via the system keyboard. I would assume that the system passkey interface will handle the receiving app, and the sharing app will register with the system (NOT with the browser or app, although this doesn't preclude doing that as well) to vend passkeys.