I probably could have framed this more clearly. I don’t think my point really supports the lock-in argument.
Google has been a big proponent of FIDO, having been an early adopter of U2F in Chrome and leveraging it for advanced protection. More recently, they have extended Chrome support to FIDO2/passkeys and made this move to make it the favored means of authentication for Google accounts.
Given that strategy, it’s a bit of a head scratcher to see Android lagging behind its desktop and mobile competitors. Why stick your mobile customers with second class support for the passwordless technologies you’re pushing everywhere else?!
Google has been a big proponent of FIDO, having been an early adopter of U2F in Chrome and leveraging it for advanced protection. More recently, they have extended Chrome support to FIDO2/passkeys and made this move to make it the favored means of authentication for Google accounts.
Given that strategy, it’s a bit of a head scratcher to see Android lagging behind its desktop and mobile competitors. Why stick your mobile customers with second class support for the passwordless technologies you’re pushing everywhere else?!