Comment by growse

Thank you for articulating.

> That passkeys come with some limitations, like oh by the way, now you're stuck paying Apple/Google/1password a subscription fee for the rest of your life, is merely a happy side effect for the corporation.

I see this, but I disagree with the conclusion for two reasons.

1) there's no evidence of this happening in the consumer passkey space despite enormous opportunity.

2) we already have instances of lock-in to services by service providers. Whether it's banks demanding you use their little weird dongle to login, or apple demanding you use an iDevice to use airtags or parental controls. This is, I agree, a problem. But the market seems to be working it out quite well