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Re:Apple Sign In by ricardobeat on Monday June 03, 2019 @04:24PM (#20088198)
Whoa. Apple is picking up where Mozilla’s ball dropped, but with a massively better chance of success.

Cheers to whoever is running this show.

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Re:Apple Sign In by move-on-by on Monday June 03, 2019 @07:35PM (#20090160)
Mozilla dropped the ball on this? They never had an opportunity to do this. Apple will only succeed by bulling developers that want to stay in the AppStore. Mozilla doesn’t have the market share or financial leverage to do anything like this.
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Re:Apple Sign In by ricardobeat on Monday June 03, 2019 @08:17PM (#20090472)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Persona

> Mozilla doesn’t have the market share or financial leverage to do anything like this

Precisely. There was very little incentive for websites to adopt it at the time; Apple has a lot more power.

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Re:Apple Sign In by move-on-by on Monday June 03, 2019 @08:37PM (#20090612)
They tried, they didn’t have a way to force it on companies. Not sure how that’s considered dropping the ball?
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Re:Apple Sign In by loceng on Monday June 03, 2019 @06:57PM (#20089832)
Tim Cook and the Board of Directors, no? Of course there will be other who initiated and are spearheading the effort to include in the cheers.
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