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Re:iOS now requires Sign On with Apple alongside other auth ... by dannyperson on Sunday March 08, 2020 @12:24AM (#22516486)
For a dev with little to no time, this does basically say you can't show other sign in options. You can have only Apple sign in, but not only $competitor sign in.

Let's say I have an old app that isn't bringing me much new revenue. I have currently have implemented two options: sign in with email + password, and "sign in with Google".

After this announcement, I would just remove "sign in with Google" as an option, and force all my users who previously used "sign in with Google" to set a password.

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Re:iOS now requires Sign On with Apple alongside other auth ... by rolltiide on Sunday March 08, 2020 @12:35AM (#22516505)
> After this announcement, I would just remove "sign in with Google" as an option, and force all my users who previously used "sign in with Google" to set a password.

Okay, you do that. That's not a punishment to Apple, you might bounce some of your own users and is a choice you made exclusively.

> You can have only Apple sign in, but not only $competitor sign in.

If that's the antitrust argument, they just need to reword it say "and include another signin method" or logged out functionality. I just don't think thats a strong enough argument, as they aren't removing choice in any way only adding it, except to people with existing apps - like you - who will risk decimating all their own users.

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