So anybody who is using Sign In with Apple trusts Apple to do the right thing.
Besides, what monopoly? Apple is perfectly happy with other single sign ons — provided you also offer Sign In With Apple.
They are using their app store monopoly to gain a foothold in the single sign-on business. You could try to claim that there's no business there but look at how Microsoft got spanked for giving away a free browser. Now the Apple has over half the phones in the United States, I'm looking forward to them getting spanked very soon hopefully.
Yeah, it's practically the same thing if you just ignore the basic facts of the case.
That's exactly the kind of behavior that Apple is exhibiting here.
It's pretty easy to come along and say that I'm "ignoring the basic facts of the case" though without presenting any facts of your own to back that up. So let's hear your take now.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor....
But again, Sign In with Apple sits in addition to the other offerings, it doesn’t replace them, and in no case are developers expected to be unable to offer regular sign in with email.
To my mind, you’re not wrong, but making a rather different argument.
It is pretty standard "embrace, extend, and extinguish" strategy. Similar to what's happening in the browser market. They are waiting for majority of the apps to have their sign on and majority of users use Apple sign on, then update the policy to disallow other methods.
I mean I don't have any issue of Apple doing these in their own ecosystem, but at least don't be so hypocritical or naive when defending them.
If the only other options you provide are Google or Facebook, you (as an app developer) clearly doesn’t care that much about privacy.
Apparently Apple doesn’t feel that any other providers care enough. That’s why they’re mandating the use of their privacy-focused solution.