Comments on: OpenID on the iPhone

By: Christian Decker

Christian Decker — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 18:20:58 +0000

Besides a new push towards Ajax, I think that OpenID is definitely one of the major winner technologies with the release of the iPhone.
Keep up the good work ^^

By: Fading Roses & Raging Viruses » Blog Archive » What the iPhone means to WebDev

Wed, 11 Jul 2007 18:15:27 +0000

[...] extensivel, because we all know that writing on small devices is a real pain. There’s a great post over at FactorCity on OpenID & iPhone, which I think says it all.Popularity: unranked [...]

By: tortilla

tortilla — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 01:19:51 +0000

I never really understood the usefulness of OpenID until now. Great article!

By: Justin Thorp

Justin Thorp — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 14:05:04 +0000

Cheers to your efforts! I hope that app developers will heed your advice and use OpenID on all their apps especially ones built for the iPhone.

I have screwed up my password a bunch of times on the iPhone virtual keyboard. You essentially have to start from the beginning each time you screw up.

By: Joshua Peek

Joshua Peek — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 03:38:39 +0000

I’m glad that OpenID already works great on my iPhone. MyOpenID keeps me logged in so I don’t have to type my password and I just bookmark my OpenID enabled sites with my site, Highrise ex (https://josh.highrisehq.com/session?openid_url=http://joshpeek.com/), and it automatically logs me in everytime. Great!

By: Alex Hillman

Alex Hillman — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 02:47:51 +0000

OpenID totally makes sense for mobile apps, period. Less characters to input = easier use.

Has there been discussion about if it is appropriate to use something like useragents to detect the requesting device and adjust the openID authentication mechanism appropriately? Whatever the mechanism is, it should minimize “keystrokes”.

I’m excited to see this evolve, it’s just as smart as the “one portable login for every small business service I use”.