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		tiffanyh on March 27, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Apple passwords deserve an app Apple has to tread lightly on not have too robust of capabilities, especially for non-Apple ecosystem, since it might be consider anti-competitive. (e.g. Netscape vs Microsoft Internet Explorer) EDIT: why the downvotes without a reply? If you don't agree, why not just respond why so that a health dialogue can occur.

sbuk on March 28, 2023 [–]

As stated by another poster, Netscape vs MSFT was about coercing OEMs not to include competing browsers to be pre-installed on new systems. Apple could create and give away a cross platform password manager without much fear of ramifications, unless they exclude all other password managers.

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