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It failed to get wider adoption because the average consumer doesn't see the problem they solve as a problem. There's a far small potential userbase who recogni
by cryptolect 13y ago
It failed to get wider adoption because the average consumer doesn't see the problem they solve as a problem. There's a far small potential userbase who recognize the privacy benefits of the Persona system.
- return0 13y agoI don't think privacy is the main problem they solve, but the user's need to skip the tedious signups all the time.
- nzp 13y agoWhich they can already do with accounts they most likely already have: Facebook, Google, Twitter, LinkedIN any OpenID provider... So the only potential benefit of Persona is the privacy, and if a user doesn't care about that then it's just another account you have to worry about (i.e. the very problem it tries to solve). As it stands, Persona's problem is that it just reinvents the wheel with slightly different spokes when people already have wheels that they consider good enough.