Apple Sign In

Post by oefrha » Tue, Jun 04, 2019, 4:33 AM UTC

bscphil wrote: post #382

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My rule, and it is a semi-idiotic one, is "i don't impulse buy from independent merchant websites that don't support apple pay at checkout". I usually email them after, too. "I actually clicked through your instagram ad, looked at some clothes that looked nice, and didn't buy anything because I was on my phone and didn't want to make a new account and add credentials to my password manager. Have you considered adding…

I think it's not an idiotic idea, it's just that your idea of what counts as third-party payment support is a single smaller payment provider located mainly in the United States. I follow a similar policy, but in my case the third-party payment services are Paypal, Stripe, and Coinbase, all of which are reliable and don't require me to give financial data to the seller. Paypal seems to be near-universally supported o…

Post by pluffycat » Tue, Jun 04, 2019, 4:54 AM UTC

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Fb and G screwed themselves by: forcing users to submit real cell phone numbers (no forwarding numbers allowed) and real names. I’m laughing all the way to the apple oauth signup. So tired of G and Fb abusing users

Apple now requires 2FA for new accounts created on an iPhone and for 2FA they require a phone number.

Post by mixmastamyk » Tue, Jun 04, 2019, 4:55 AM UTC

pluffycat wrote: post #375

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Facebook/Google care about offering services to everyone on the planet, not just the richest that have more disposable income than most people have in lifetime savings. Compared to Apple that cares about you only to make you pay ever-increasing amounts of money to maintain membership in its closed ecosystems, and blocks off any sort of mixed-ecosystem use, it's a refreshing twist.

Tell that to your shadow profile

Post by bscphil » Tue, Jun 04, 2019, 5:02 AM UTC

diminoten wrote: post #393

bscphil wrote: post #384

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>Sensible people do not deliberately handcuff themselves to trillion dollar megacorps and then throw away the key. >Yes they do >It was because they didn’t want to be “green bubbles,” a reference to the fact that iMessage chats in the iPhone’s Messages app use blue bubbles while SMS chats are displayed with green bubbles Sorry, it seems to me like the story you're relating supports the point of the post you disagree…

Sensible people absolutely do choose a phone on the basis of how they're perceived by owning that phone. Perception has value. You can rail against society all you want, but the reality is your peers make and break you.

Post by fastball » Tue, Jun 04, 2019, 5:09 AM UTC

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This is Apple sensing weakness and dropping a bomb right on facebook’s doorstep. And they sidestep the anticompetitive angle by arguing that instant anonymous sign on is simply a better UX, which it is. Someone at Apple deserves a raise.

Lol, I doubt it. Apple is years late and sucks at doing the leg work of getting third parties to adopt its suck. Look at Apple Pay which was launched at the perfect time.