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Oh, I have been fantasizing about a similar thing for about a decade! Currently my "account manager" is either an e-mail folder (I save the welcome e-mails), or my Facebook/Google account (the "authorized apps" page), and this is far from ideal.

I also wish I could sign up for new websites/services using such a manager. If it already had all my personal info, it would take just one click to sign up. And maybe selecting which personal details I would like to disclose with the website.

Mozilla Persona with browser integration[1] was the closest thing to that. Too bad it was abandoned.

[1] https://people-mozilla.org/~faaborg/files/projects/firefoxAc...

I'm not mrspeaker, but I have a similar stance regarding apps/logins/etc.

For me, it is the burden of having to create accounts for stuff I'll probably only use once, plus the mental burden of knowing that the website has my personal information and might leak it.

That, and the fact that having an account/app these days is synonymous with "oh, sure, send me all the spam you have!", via e-mail or mobile notifications.

If anything, password managers help me see which accounts I should be deleting.

For the same reason it happens in other websites/services: to collect personal data and to subscribe the user to their spam^H^H^H^H mailing list.

> the sandboxing made it impossible to do any real innovation on the OS X platform which my app is trying to do

Do you have any examples of things you needed to do but the sandbox prevented you from doing?

What the phrase actually means is "I conducted the experiment and you can reproduce it, but you shouldn't use it in production".

Have you considered that you're not the target audience? Clearly people find this interesting. You might too, if you actually read the article. Also, if you're browsing Hacker News expecting to only see 100% bug-free tools suitable for immediate deployment, I have some bad news for you...