They're a solution to a problem that were created by people who are completely out of touch with normal users and how they use computers.
Sure they work fine on a technical level, but they're frustrating and confusing for the vast majority of people I know.
Depends. They make it pretty easy for people who don't think about the consequences of things.
I worry I am going to get locked out of my Google account, muggles don't. Doesn't stop them from getting locked out.
Apple has a vision where you have an iPhone and a mac at home and a mac at work and a vision pro and an Apple TV and all of that and your passcodes "just work". Doesn't work for the "rest of us", like we're already used to AirPods punishing us for using Windows.
>Apple has a vision where you have an iPhone and a mac at home and a mac at work and a vision pro and an Apple TV and all of that and your passcodes "just work".
I have many of those and I fucking don't want them to "just work". My iPad is not my iPhone. My Mac Mini is not my iPhone. Yet my iPad at home pops up the speech-to-text voicemail notifications from phone calls that I chose not to answer while I am miles away at work. It's so fucking annoying that you can't specifically turn that off.
It's funny.
My usual "go kit" has my iPhone in my leg bag and then my iPad is either my main bag or one of those pouches that waitresses wear which has plenty of room to pack a tablet. I like using the hotspot (being parsimonious with data) and being able to respond to texts with tbe big screen. It's also nice that I can share passwords and passkeys easily between them.
Other aspects of the "Apple Lifestyle" make no sense to me, like I an a mirrorless photographer and use my iPhone like my Sony, I will go out with my selfie stick and shoot 200 selfies, transfer them to my computer, pick the best 3, them clear them all out.
I plugged my iPhone into my Mac when my wife was logged in and it tries to back up the whole 'freakin phone and renames it "Olivia's Phone" which is just nuts. Of course their answer is that you never clean out your phone, you just upload it all to iCloud, where I think the value proposition is you can pay $1 a month and stop all the dialogs nagging you to get it... Now only if I could have made the badge for Apple Arcade to go away by trying the free trial and canceling it!
Similar for "automatically enabling Bitlocker and uploading the keys to microsoft server".
If it works without any issues, great.
But if you ever run into one of the 50 messed up situations, good luck.
No, microsoft uploading disk encryption keys to your account is the exact opposite situation. It's microsoft purposely reducing security to ensure there is a recovery path, because average people don't need or want the security tradeoffs where "You permanently lose access and it mathematically cannot ever be recovered" is a failure mode.
If it was possible for a key to your house to have that failure mode, nobody would ever lock their doors
A recovery path that is taken from you if you forget your Microsoft account password or your account gets banned on a whim. Sure.
I have worked with windows PCs for a living for many years and I have never seen one do that.
Hint: google "lost bitlocker key reddit.com"