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“But it’s Epic’s fault for breaking the rules!”
If you only see it as Epic Is Bad, you conveniently ignore real issues with Apple’s platform. Do users appreciate SIWA’s convenience? Yes. Is it a poorly documented feature forced upon all apps with existing social login? Also yes. https://twitter.com/rileytestut/status/1303723859133095939
If you only see it as Epic Is Bad, you conveniently ignore real issues with Apple’s platform. Do users appreciate SIWA’s convenience? Yes. Is it a poorly documented feature forced upon all apps with existing social login? Also yes. https://twitter.com/rileytestut/status/1303723859133095939
Let’s have a look at why apps have social login. Facebook is massively popular, it’s hard for people to forget their Facebook login. Same Google, etc. Apple has this quality, but they don’t even try to use it as a selling point. The selling point is not getting your app rejected.
Now, because Epic did what Apple asked and added Sign in with Apple, they’re being forced to break all accounts made via SIWA. They also may not be able to help all SIWA users recover their accounts, because the private relay email isn’t one users know like their Facebook login.
SIWA is in many apps you use because of the sheer power Apple has to blackmail their platform’s developers to do whatever they want them to. Despite many shortcomings, some only recently fixed.
SIWA being good for the user does not make this behavior ok. Don’t normalise this.
SIWA being good for the user does not make this behavior ok. Don’t normalise this.
Apple doesn’t NEED to break SIWA for Epic, they’d just really like to because their values are corrupt and they fail to see the message this sends.
If we don’t like you any more, consider your business fucked. That’s the message they want all iOS devs to know.
Very comforting.
If we don’t like you any more, consider your business fucked. That’s the message they want all iOS devs to know.
Very comforting.
