Re:App Clips for iOS
by ladberg on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @04:51PM
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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.
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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.
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.
They could revoke your keys (in theory). I don't think they would though
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
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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.
And they are saying that apple can do that. By threatening to revoke payment keys.
What kind of payment keys would they revoke for a website that does not offer ‘Pay with Apple Pay’?