> * Improving OS flows. Every passkey implementer that's also an OS gets really excited about enrolling you into their proprietary clouds, and using alternate flows to respect the users wish to use their own manager is usually hidden in confusing UI forms that don't feel consistent if you don't already know what you're doing.
You're kidding yourself if you think that this is something Microsoft, Apple, or Google are incentivized to solve. Microsoft is especially bad here - pushing their crappy products in Windows every chance they get. Once some marketing director gets the idea that this can improve retention in Outlook or something the UI will get more confusing and the dark patterns will get darker.
I never said they had an incentive to solve it. I said that it's one of the big blockers to getting regular adoption. It ought to be obvious that all these issues aren't a problem if you look at it through the big tech lens: why is it a problem when we're providing the service. They're a problem when you're a normal person with a healthy distrust of big tech companies.
In practice, I expect someone to figure out a way to break into/bypass the OS flow entirely with a less "big tech wants your private details" solution and that's what winds up getting adoption.
You're kidding yourself if you think that this is something Microsoft, Apple, or Google are incentivized to solve. Microsoft is especially bad here - pushing their crappy products in Windows every chance they get. Once some marketing director gets the idea that this can improve retention in Outlook or something the UI will get more confusing and the dark patterns will get darker.