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This single feature shown off today at WWDC has solidified my forever lock-in on all things Apple and especially iOS: no longer will my email be sold needlessly or be spammed and my logging into to different web properties sold to marketers and ad networks and data aggregators. I trust Apple a whole lot more becaUe they charge and arm-and-a-leg for high end hardware and soon services because the products and services are the products not their users.

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As soon as Keychain can abstract away passwords completely (rando generation, never need to show the user the password), so an end user cant tell if a site supports Apple SSO or if Apple is just emulating SSO, Apple deserves to be crowned the Identity Winner.

There is a session on WebAuthN on Thursday.

This is the bigger news I think and what people should really be paying attention to.

if you are attending, could you share your learnings and how can we, outside the conference, can have access to the information displayed?

https://developer.apple.com/wwdc19/live/#!/room/

This may host it live, but all presentations are recorded and will be here soon.

This would be amazing.

Actually - does it lock you in, in a more literal way.

If I sign up for a service using Apple Sign In, is then possible to sign into my account from a Windows etc machine subsequently?

There appears to be a web API for this, which would be cross compatible.

If you have used Apple's service - which is completely opt-in - you could always go into an account and change the email you associated with it if they let you do that. And if you don't, this would be in the ballpark of switching email providers - yup, you'll need to change some accounts, because you've decided to no longer pay for the service from the Apple email forwarding.

I don't think that really means what you think it means. It's very similar to the way "Apple Pay has a Web API"—websites may implement it for authentication BUT it won't allow users on a Linux/Windows machine to Pay, either. This is the same thing. You'll need to use Safari on a Mac, or it won't appear.

From the developer documentation, "Sign In with Apple works natively on iOS, macOS, tvOS, and watchOS. And it works in any browser, which means you can deploy it on your website and in versions of your apps running on other platforms"

The "works in any browser" and "apps running on other platforms" parts seem to suggest it will work fine on Linux or Windows machines or even Android devices.

Thank you for the clarification.

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