iOS now requires Sign On with Apple alongside other auth providers

Re:iOS now requires Sign On with Apple alongside other auth ... by gerash on Saturday March 07, 2020 @10:11PM (#22516091)

This might be too much legalese and IANAL but they do have a majority market share in North America. That said, I'm not suggesting this is an easy lawsuit but that it's obviously an abuse of power over the ecosystem. That is, when your product (Apple Sign in) does not take off by itself you simply force the market to adopt it.

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Re:iOS now requires Sign On with Apple alongside other auth ... by roenxi on Saturday March 07, 2020 @10:28PM (#22516146)

I'm no lawyer; so that may well be antitrust. But forcing their way in to the party isn't that similar to locking other offerings out of the ecosystem. It isn't easy to see how this hurts anyone strategically.

It'd be much more worrying and abusinve if they blocked users from logging in to certain products with their Apple ID.

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Re:iOS now requires Sign On with Apple alongside other auth ... by toohotatopic on Sunday March 08, 2020 @06:55AM (#22517432)

>This might be too much legalese and IANAL but they do have a majority market share in North America.

Citation needed. They make the most profit, but do they make the most devices?

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