Re:App Clips for iOS
by _bxg1 on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @05:15PM
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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.
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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.