On a random sidenote, I remember being at WWDC last year where someone on stage was trying to demo an iPhone app that needed a login...except the login was an A

On a random sidenote, I remember being at WWDC last year where someone on stage was trying to demo an iPhone app that needed a login...except the login was an Apple ID and well, the password was going to be shown one character at a time to the whole audience. That was a bit of a problem :) While clearly there needs to be something like that for the iPhone and odds of someone figuring out your password shoulder surfing very slim in most cases regardless, I can't see a downside to there being an 'unmask password' option on non-mobile devices for users who hate that all the passwords are masked (like mentioned above).