> Once you’re in Apple universe
replyAnd there's your blocker. Being limited to only devices from a single vendor is horrible, and a firm no from a lot of people.
> Now we can put on the tinfoil hat and say how this fosters vendor lock
The fact that you call it a tinfoil hat type issue is just insane to me. Literally every person in my household has some apple devices and some other ones (android, windows, etc). And some of them have switched back and forth.
Plus, the "ergonomics" of logging into a website on a random device to check something are awful.
> Being limited to only devices from a single vendor is horrible, and a firm no from a lot of people.
replyMaybe for a lot of tech people, I don't think the general public understands the risks enough to care.
I literally presented you with the solution in the sentence before. Buy a usb c dongle key. You pay 20 euros to NEVER have to remember a single password ever again. Seems like an ok trade off to me.
Likewise you can register multiple passkeys for multiple devices, so long as you do it in sequence (first Apple, then Android) etc.
Really it takes very little getting used to.
Ever tried to fill out a crap password form which wants 7 special characters but no dashes but uppercase but not uppercase Y and so forth.
replyHow does that USB-C dongle work on my corporate computer that has USB blocked? How does it work with my iPhone or my iPad or my Kindle?
replyMaybe it is easy to explain, but passkey promoters have clearly failed to do it. I don't think a single person I know in real life uses one.
reply> For the first time in a decade or so you can buy a PHYSICAL key and use it to sign into websites. I can explain this to any grandma out there.
replyWhat would you answer if grandma asked you what happens if she loses her physical key?