I think that is why it is both good and bad that Apple have effectively taken the lead in the rollout. They are great at UX and keeping an eye out for edge cases and trying to sand down the worst sorts of gotchas. If anyone can make sure that Passkeys feel good to the average user it is probably Apple.
On the flipside, that early lead also led to so many of the misconceptions about Passkeys that people have. People think it by nature has to be a locked, walled garden, because Apple has the lead and loves walled gardens when it has the lead.
I think that's why this newest rollout announcement is such great news (which we knew was coming, but wasn't obvious to some of those misconceptions from Apple being in the lead): complete integration with the larger ecosystem of password apps already in the App Store wild (use your 1Password passkeys just like you can use 1Password passwords), and a UX for grouping passkeys and sharing those groups with other contacts (that also helps with all the misconceptions about passkeys being some sort of crack down on password sharing).
These UX flows would have been great to have seen in the initial rollout to assuage a lot of fears about Passkeys. It is great to see them happening right now while it is still early enough to stop most of the FUD before it starts to get outside of the HN paranoia bubbles and into average consumer ears.
On the flipside, that early lead also led to so many of the misconceptions about Passkeys that people have. People think it by nature has to be a locked, walled garden, because Apple has the lead and loves walled gardens when it has the lead.
I think that's why this newest rollout announcement is such great news (which we knew was coming, but wasn't obvious to some of those misconceptions from Apple being in the lead): complete integration with the larger ecosystem of password apps already in the App Store wild (use your 1Password passkeys just like you can use 1Password passwords), and a UX for grouping passkeys and sharing those groups with other contacts (that also helps with all the misconceptions about passkeys being some sort of crack down on password sharing).
These UX flows would have been great to have seen in the initial rollout to assuage a lot of fears about Passkeys. It is great to see them happening right now while it is still early enough to stop most of the FUD before it starts to get outside of the HN paranoia bubbles and into average consumer ears.