>> Apple has described Passkey as a new kind of credential in the iCloud keychain. The technology is based on the Web Authentication API (WebAuthn), a rapidly emerging standard that uses public key cryptography instead of passwords for authenticating users to websites and applications.
Whatever "based on webauthn" means...Let's hope it's not just a buggy implementation of WebAuthn as they did with OpenID Connect
Same as what they did with Bluetooth and AirTags, AirPods, etc.
They start with the standardized technology, do their little twist (which usually involves fixing some standardized bug that affects performance and people have been complaining about for years), and patent it.
Whatever "based on webauthn" means...Let's hope it's not just a buggy implementation of WebAuthn as they did with OpenID Connect