Re:Mozilla claims Apple, Google and Microsoft force users to...
by musicale on Friday September 23, 2022 @07:33PM
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> I've never explicitly installed Keychain on my iphone and yet it shows as an option next to 1password every time I fill in a password field
It is worth noting that KeyChain was introduced in Mac OS 8.6 in 1999, and has been part of every version of macOS since then, as well as every version of iOS ever. It's basically the user credential subsystem for Apple operating systems.
As I understand it, 1Password came out in 2006.
When I looked at it last, it seemed that 1Password didn't interoperate well with KeyChain and also required a subscription - decisions which I found unappealing.
It is worth noting that KeyChain was introduced in Mac OS 8.6 in 1999, and has been part of every version of macOS since then, as well as every version of iOS ever. It's basically the user credential subsystem for Apple operating systems.
As I understand it, 1Password came out in 2006.
When I looked at it last, it seemed that 1Password didn't interoperate well with KeyChain and also required a subscription - decisions which I found unappealing.