How Popular Is “Sign in with Apple”?

Post by dep_b » Tue, Jan 28, 2020, 9:18 PM UTC

criley2 wrote: post #97

dep_b wrote: post #78

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> As an Android developer I have no reason to own either of those. Of course you do: Please implement this iOS application/feature in Android . Not being able to run an application from Xcode onto an iOS device severely hampers your career. I have to deal with so many Android developers and their output I absolutely cannot afford the luxury to not run Android apps from Android Studio. I don't think Sign In With Apple…

This isn't really a fair comparison because any OSX user can just download and run Android studio for free, while your average Android programmer would require over a thousand dollars (to get a bottom-level Apple device with the worst specifications, or closer to two thousand+ to get competitive hardware) and then a yearly subscription to XCode at $100/year, and that's without having any actual iPhones to test on as…

Post by pfranz » Tue, Jan 28, 2020, 9:22 PM UTC

izacus wrote: post #101

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> My understanding over the past decade or so has been they've used "standards" to stream, but just the standards Safari had implemented. It's just HLS, which Chrome didn't support

HLS can be rather readily supported with a JavaScript library that works just fine on Chrome. Imagine if Google would just "forget" to keep supporting H.264 on YouTube and only served VP9 unsupported in Safari and iOS.

Post by mavhc » Tue, Jan 28, 2020, 9:29 PM UTC

freehunter wrote: post #89

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I use a mix of Apple and non-Apple devices. It's a shame that I can't, for example, use Safari on Windows or Android.

There used to be a Safari for Windows. No one used it so Apple dropped support.

Post by parliament32 » Tue, Jan 28, 2020, 9:36 PM UTC

hadtodoit wrote: post #155

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PSA: If you're going to implement Sign in with Apple, PLEASE implement Sign in with Google (and vice versa). This is the EXACT issue we had when Apple Pay/Android Pay came out. The solution was for POS vendors to just implement both, always. SO, that's the solution here.

You seem confused. Apple Pay works using the exact same tech as contactless payment cards, a widely supported standard.

Post by bcyn » Tue, Jan 28, 2020, 9:40 PM UTC

pwinnski wrote: post #170

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But Apple Pay and Android Pay both use identical underlying technology, don't they? I.e. it's not possible to support one without the other, because they are the same.

By default, supporting one means supporting the other, but in practice, several large chain stores deliberately disabled ApplePay specifically at first, hoping to choke it off. That seems to have failed, and I can't remember the last time I saw a place that took contactless payment but not ApplePay, but it was a thing for a while.