It, too, has its issues. Especially the 'New Outlook', which is esentially the web version in an app wrapper. Like always wanting to open the web versions of Office products when you go to open attachments instead of the actual app installed on your machine.
The only reason I realized this was a thing is because a coworker blew past the initial popup about the behavior and couldnt figure out what the hell was going on.
Users don't pay attention to this stuff. And then when you have to go back and switch it to the correct behavior of using the default browser, they've buried the option in Outlook (Options > Advanced > Link Handling).
I'm a big bioreconstruct fan as well. For me, theme parks are an amalgam of nearly every technical and creative discipline in the pursuit of telling some sort of story that you can walk through and explore yourself. Watching that all come together and seeing all the behind the scenes work is fascinating, particularly when we are almost always kept in the dark about details until opening.
"Passkeys will be importable and exportable, cross-device, and across passkey managers. They aren’t at this time, but they will be. It’s something that’s being defined and designed." -Apple Authentication Experience manger
Until Google, or Apple, or facebook, or whoever is the passkey store holder decides to put up an interoperability wall, either through neglect, cost savings, or intentional user retention.
The big providers could provide cross company SSO (e.g. sign onto my google mail account w/ my apple identity) for all their accounts already, but for some reason that hasn't happened...
It's great that they're aiming for this, but there's no reason to take them at their word until they actually ship something.
Also, considering that there are already multiple software vendors providing passkey hosting functionality, it seems a little late to start designing the "cross-device, and across passkey managers" part of this. If it's not in the standard already, what assurance does a user have that any of these third-party entities will implement it?
I'll believe this when it actually happens and I can audit the whole implementation stack myself. Until then, I trust Apple about as far as I can throw them. Remember when they got sued for lying in ads and their defense was "no reasonable person in Plaintiff's position could have reasonably relied on or misunderstood Apple's statements as claims of fact"? https://www.wired.com/2008/12/apple-says-cust/
"Now, FaceTime is based on a lot of open standards -- H.264 video, AAC audio, and a bunch of alphabet soup acronyms -- and we're going to take it all the way. We're going to the standards bodies starting tomorrow, and we're going to make FaceTime an open industry standard." - Steve Jobs.
