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The software industry has zero concept of how much pain and suffering passkeys are going to cause the average person, almost entirely because the average American has an iPhone and a Windows laptop and there's literally nothing built-in to iOS or Windows that will sync passkeys between these two devices. The world's most popular password managers are Excel and Apple Notes, in that order; these apps do not support Passkeys.

Passkeys are not going to happen, and its the industry's fault. Its a bad standard that solves some problems the industry itself has, by creating more problems for consumers. If you force consumers to move to only-passkeys, you're going to lose customers, and it might not even be their choice, you're just making the decision to lock people out.

parent 015a 1 year ago

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