The important highlight is that Sign in with Apple allows somewhat anonymous login. So Apple can argue it is requiring everyone to support a more privacy-friendly login option.

They are not....

They could have said, if your app has social network log in, must support a more anonymous way as well.... and not must support Apple's login service..... which might/might not be good for users....

If you look at the rules, that is exactly what they are doing. If you provide a form of 3rd party login that isn’t the following things: (...list of sign ins that are all not the kind of “Sign in with Facebook / Google”, you are exempt.

So it seems pretty targeted:apps that provide FB or Google sign in must also provide Apple sign in, which has an anonymous option.

As a user I’m loving this. Worrysome use of AppStore power aside...

Apple store, apple rules.

Seems strange to me that people don't get this. If you don't like these rules, you're welcome to just not use their hardware. All of the rules Apple is implementing like this are by and large, for the benefit of the users, so I don't see the problem whatsoever.

Lol... sure.....

I worked for Spotify, and apple did all kind of hoopla to delay/deny the iOS updates....

My favorite one: If you did tap at one of the support/help tabs, it would open a webpage, which contained the support text, and the app got rejected, because after about THREE links, that would lead to the homepage, and there was a premium offer, and you can't have it.....

They kept denying updates for reasons like that....

"Coincidentally" they released their streaming service that month....

That's extremely anti-competitive..... and it wasn't done for the benefit of the user, but for the benefit of Apple only. When a user buys a phone, they have a reasonable expectations that other apps would work, and you will not be forced to use apple only services (directly or indirectly).

I.e. they are false advertising their phones.....

Does Spotify not work on iOS? Is this the same Spotify that originally required a Facebook account to sign up?

When clear objective anti competitive points are presented, lets switch attention to Facebook.

Opinions vary. The lack of browser extensibility is not always a benefit to the user, for example.

Apple not permitting apps that display certain types of legal content in the App Store is not a benefit to users that like to produce or consume those types of content. Censorship sucks, even if Apple is legally permitted to do it because it’s their store. It’s rude.

Hopefully the rumor that Apple is soon going to let you select a different default browser/mail/music/photos app is true, and this will be less of an issue.

It will still be an issue because of the many types of apps that Apple simply censors entirely from the store, from Tumblr to Tor to VPNs in China.

Luckily the law sees it differently than this or we would be drowning in monopolies.

It seems like it would be a safer option for customers privacy wise Vs Facebook login. That said, uncomfortable questions have to be to asked if sign on with apple can be blocked to, by proxy, block/remove an app from the store.

Another reason web apps are the future.

Don't develop for evil companies. I tried explaining this to my coworkers but they couldn't see beyond the $$$. Now I understand why Engineers take a 2 hour ethics class.

If you have a web app that forces me to use a FB log in, I won’t use your app.

Spot on. SIWA is great for me because a whole class of apps I previously refused to use are now on the table.

It effectively forces apps to have an anonymized email login option, and even better, if said app starts abusing its access to my inbox, I can cut it off permanently even if the app offers no such option.

That’s not what it’s dictating.