[cjcampbell]

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?!