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Their cross-comparison of vendors toward the end is pretty disingenuous. For starters: authentication entries stored in iCloud Keychain aren't "natively" access
by 015a 2y ago
Their cross-comparison of vendors toward the end is pretty disingenuous. For starters: authentication entries stored in iCloud Keychain aren't "natively" accessible to Firefox and Chrome users on MacOS. Apple does officially distribute a Chrome extension to make them accessible, but as far as I'm aware there's no way to get at them from Firefox. This would make the cross-comparison for iCloud look much more like the third party password manager column.
On multiple occasions they mention the "Passwords App coming to Windows"; this is entirely supposition. Apple has said nothing about this, period. Yes, they have passwords available in iCloud for Windows, but its missing a ton of functionality, loses authentication with your Apple account constantly, and is overall an unusable experience.
Nothing being stated in this article is new, nothing Google is adding is even new let alone "groundbreaking" (their words), applications like 1Password have had this for what must be nearing a year now. But, my suspicion is that Corbado, whoever they are, wouldn't want to talk too much about the capabilities of 1Password, because they directly compete with one-another [1].
[1] https://1password.com/product/passage https://1password.com/product/passage
- p0seidon 2y agoI am one of the Co-founders. We have heard from members of the FIDO2 community who are closer to Apple that this will probably happen. You are right that Apple could also be positioned more as a password manager on other platforms; we have considered this. However, this is not how most people currently perceive it. Google releasing this functionality to production is relatively new for those outside the passkey community, although it is not surprising when following Chrome Dev. Overall, the tendency of Apple and Google to focus on passkeys for consumers and make them accessible is an interesting angle. In our blog, we frequently discuss password managers; in fact, we are also 1Password customers. Passage is a part of 1Password that operates in the same field as we do, likely because they recognize a potential threat from Apple and Google in the consumer space. For companies implementing passkeys this is quite a significant change, because now a Chrome can carry a passkey that used to be a cross-device case before. The ecosystem is getting more complicated...
- CamJN 2y agoI use my iCloud passkeys from Firefox Developer Edition without relying on an extension, so it’s implemented there at least. Dunno about “stable” Firefox.