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> I doubt Apple will be our savior here. Apple is in a great position to implement this spec: their secure enclave and the systems they've developed around it are practically the state of the art.

You are probably right, but there is one self-interested reason why Apple might resist implementing this - Apple doesn’t like the web competing with apps, and this is basically giving the web a capability that right now only apps (effectively) have.

>>skissa+(OP)
Excellent point.

>>skissa+(OP)
> Apple doesn’t like the web competing with apps

Perhaps you haven’t been paying attention but macOS Sonoma—currently in beta, shipping this fall—has the best web app support we’ve seen in a mainstream operating system.

You can put a web app on the Dock using the Finder’s “Save to Dock” command for virtually any website or web app.

Not only do you get service workers, push notification, web app manifest support, etc. web apps have first class support in the Finder, Spotlight, Spaces, Mission Control, etc. [1].

[1]: https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2023/10120/