Comment by Nextgrid

> did Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google, etc all make a terrible engineering mistake? Or did this guy with a blog miss something?

Today I opened the Music app on my Mac to cancel a subscription. It asked me to use Touch ID to authenticate (fair enough) but then immediately fell back to asking me for my Apple ID & password.

This is on a Mac that's been logged into iCloud for ages, has a working iCloud connection (exchanged some files through it today) and I installed an app from the App Store today (without being asked to reauth, suggesting my session is indeed still valid).

The fact that MacOS frequently asks for Apple ID credentials seems to be a common and widespread problem that I myself experienced for years (sadly this occurrence wasn't a surprise for me - if anything the initial Touch ID prompt was more surprising as I couldn't believe it would actually not ask me for my password this time), so I wouldn't use big names as a sign of quality - if anything it's the opposite, big names means lots of employees who might have their own reasons for doing certain things or preserving a status-quo that might benefit them & their careers at the expense of the user experience.