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Re:App Clips for iOS by _bxg1 on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @04:33PM (#23633508)
I agree, though I think there's also a more cynical side to it. I see it as a land-grab by Apple to bring use-cases that currently belong to the web, under the umbrella of their app ecosystem. I'm still excited because I think the user experience will be legitimately much better. But I am a bit concerned about the implications.
Re:App Clips for iOS by ladberg on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @04:51PM (#23633728)
Any time I try to order food on the web I feel like I have to make an account for some service I've never heard of and manually enter in credit card info. I fully welcome just being able to choose my order and pay with Apple Pay, nothing else needed.
Re:App Clips for iOS by ryukafalz on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @04:59PM (#23633810)
That's an option on the web too though? Through both Apple's proprietary implementation and the standardized Payment Request API: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/apple_pay_on_the_w...

...of course this requires developers to use it, but then so does App Clips.

Re:App Clips for iOS by _bxg1 on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @05:15PM (#23633968)
Apple has a policy that any app developer who offers "Sign in with ___" for any company, has to also include "Sign in with Apple". That's not something they could do on the web.
Re:App Clips for iOS by djxfade on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @05:24PM (#23634037)
They could revoke your keys (in theory). I don't think they would though
Re:App Clips for iOS by _bxg1 on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @05:40PM (#23634193)
You misunderstood; I'm saying Apple couldn't coerce a website into offering Sign in with Apple as an option, like they can with an app on the App Store.
Re:App Clips for iOS by fiddlerwoaroof on Thursday June 25, 2020 @12:35AM (#23636947)
To me, this is a feature: I don’t want to have a million passwords because some random developer doesn’t like my preferred authentication method. As a user, I prefer to pick a trusted authentication provider and use it everywhere because, in the end, it’s a lot simpler for me: I don’t need to remember half a million username/email/password combinations, I just need to be able to authenticate myself to Apple.

Developers, web developers especially, often seem to forget that the browser is a _user_ agent. Instead, they force their aesthetic and functional preferences on me, when I have chosen fonts, colors, interactions and systems that I prefer to be able to use wherever possible.

Re:App Clips for iOS by megablast on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @06:06PM (#23634411)
And they are saying that apple can do that. By threatening to revoke payment keys.
Re:App Clips for iOS by tinus_hn on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @08:00PM (#23635286)
What kind of payment keys would they revoke for a website that does not offer ‘Pay with Apple Pay’?
Re:App Clips for iOS by _bxg1 on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @04:59PM (#23633807)
Sign in with Apple and Apple Pay already exist on the web. Though I guess, Apple can't force companies to offer it on the web.