So are you locked in with Apple if you use this, or can you switch all your existing passwords to another "passkey provider/service" ?
> "Wave Goodbye to CAPTCHAS"
I assume that's Safari only... so this is bad news for Firefox?
https://fidoalliance.org/apple-google-and-microsoft-commit-t...
I don't think it will be Apple only. However, I am wondering what will happen to services like bitwarden [1] if it is available on other OSes as well.
Will major players be too powerful that no competing solutions will realistically exist.
I suppose that passwords will always be a thing for the paranoids amongst us. But i don't know whether that is enough to sustain the product.
I’d rather use bitwarden than Apples wallet.
Eventually, yes. Not now, but the goal is eventually, yes. It requires support to come to Android and at that point, they'll build the bridge to bring them together. I don't think the system currently exists for this, but they've said Passkeys will be a "multi-year industry-wide transition" so I'm inclined to believe it'll ship in the coming years.
When you sign in with a passkey, you have the option of scanning a QR code from a locally present device running any software that can speak the standard (e.g., Android). This means that you can login using any software that supports Passkeys using any devices that support Passkeys. For example, Chrome on Windows (chrome://flags, turn on passkey support) with an iPhone is a valid pair.
That it also happens to provide better security is just more cheese on the trap.
I wouldn’t touch it with a 10 yard stick unless I have full control of the private key.
[1]: https://blog.1password.com/1password-is-joining-the-fido-all...
Sites will never go full Passkeys because that obviously falls over if you want to access it from any other device or computer, support request costs would go through the ceiling