[olliej]

* I thought only one of these companies was notorious for spyware and surveillance? One has made not tracking/privacy a primary marketing angle, the other is kind of an also-ran on mobile? That said I think I'm 100% on your side of the "hooray, lets require an account with some finite set of identity providers, wcgw?" debate

** This doesn't even make sense. The entire point of the modern secure elements is that they are a "real" hardware token. I get that a bunch of android devices are penny-pinching to the extent they may be dropping actual secure elements but the seems like something google could mandate real secure elements.

*** Agreed with you on <*> + A&G controlling the platforms, but curious about who is trying to get CPU-resident? I think I may have missed this latests insanity :D