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It's incredible how Apple make it's users happy to lock-in in their eco-system. I don't really know Apple eco-system but it seems weird to migrate from tierce app (already well integrated) like Bitwarden to keychain. I've lost count of the people who have switched from their Music App to Apple Music for no reason other than "it's Apple". Apple make good hardware and their eco-system seem amazing too, but people should see the advantages to be not entirely depedent from a company.


> but people should see the advantages to be not entirely depedent from a company

I think you're overestimating how much the average person thinks or cares about their computing platforms. They want something that works and gets out of the way, and to that end having everything come from one company is a feature, not a bug.

I mean I consider myself a power user and I still use iCloud Keychain purely because I was already using Safari when it launched, so it already had all my passwords. I recognise the advantages of third-party offerings, but to me they're not enough to bother moving all my stuff over.

Similarly I still use a third-party 2FA app because I was using it before Apple added it into iCloud Keychain (and also because the third-party app has an Apple Watch app and I've grown accustomed to reading the codes off my wrist).




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