Amazon Passkeys Launched: Response to Consumer Demand with Poor Implementation
&gt; Recognizing the increasing demand by consumers to enhance security and in particular user convenience, Amazon rolls out passkeys widely across most devices and browsers. This underlines Amazon’s commitment to bend to consumer demand.<p>Which consumer base has demanded enhanced security and convenience (for which passkeys are the proclaimed answer)? The non-tech crowd has no idea what it is and is probably just hearing about it. The tech crowd on a forum like HN seems to be mostly against it because of issues with account recovery and cross-device use that passwords don’t pose.<p>From what I understand, it seems like passkeys may ultimately rely on SMS OTP or similar mechanisms for account recovery. The other likely result would be losing the account forever, especially if the user is a single device one (there are billions of such people around the world).<p>I’m going to wait it out a little longer to see how the interoperability factors play out in reality and learn from those who are braver than me.