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>That being said, I think this is a great idea. I don't love the Facebook OAuth flow and the amount of access most apps ask for. You bring up a perfect point f
by 300bps 13y ago
>That being said, I think this is a great idea. I don't love the Facebook OAuth flow and the amount of access most apps ask for.
You bring up a perfect point from a user's perspective and I agree with you. The challenge for Amazon is that there are two competing interests:
1. Users who don't want their entire life to be open to developers
2. Developers that want as much info as possible on the users
Facebook favors group #2 above, Amazon will probably favor group #1 above. If that ends up being the case, how many developers will be willing to utilize the OAuth service that doesn't give them as much info by default?
- nucleardog 13y agoIf Amazon were as ubiquitous as Facebook, we would. In most situations where we've used a Facebook login, it's simply to avoid forcing the users to create yet another account. We don't pull any real data (except maybe a couple things, again, for their convenience - to fill out their profile) like their name. We push nothing back. Being able to say "Hey, just login. We don't actually care about your information." would be much preferable to Facebook's unnecessary "This app is requesting permissions to access your profile and friends list." We don't need that information. I guess maybe that's our fault for abusing Facebook integration by using it simply as a single sign-on service.
- Anonazon 13y agoIf you have any doubts about which customer Amazon is more interested in, just take a look at this new AWS service and the APIs http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/29/amazon-web-services-launches-web-identity-service-with-support-for-google-and-facebook/ http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/29/amazon-web-services-launche...