I'm sure 1Password doesn't care one iota about loosing individual users with attitudes like this. Until the forced to a monthly rent seeking hand in my pocket policy was deployed, I had been a vocal advocate for 1Pass. Now, they're about to loose me altogether
I felt that way on principle for a long time, but honestly, on reflection, 1P is probably subscription that is most justifiable. I want to outsource online security to people that know what they are doing. I want that to be a viable business for a long time into the future. And I want their funding model to be such that their interests are aligned with those of their paying users (me).
People can get so irrational when it comes to the cost of software. The same person who'd pay hundreds of dollars for a cleaner, or a gym membership, will swear up and down that 70 bucks a year for an online bodyguard is highway robbery.
Often while refusing to work for less than six figures as a SWE, hating on companies for seeking VC funding, dismissing non open-source approaches, and then complaining why there aren't more alternatives :)
I think this new interface to the password feature in macos will probably put even more of a dent into 1password/bitwarden/etc's consumer business driving them even further into catering to enterprise, it's a pitty, but 'this isn't a product, this a feature'.
While 1Password probably wouldn't have gotten as popular as it is, if they started as a SaaS, instead of letting everyone think they could just buy it one time and be done, I doubt anyone would be angry about it.
It would be. Fortunately, 1Password doesn’t do that [1].
You’re paying for an important piece of software to be maintained.
> I'm sure 1Password doesn't care one iota about loosing individual users with attitudes like this
Probably not. Emphasis on attitude.
We can have upgrades and working software that gets updates without monthly fees to do it. I also do not need their cloud and only features. They intentionally removed the local vaults specifically to force you to use their cloud. That was the last straw for me.
No, the last twenty years has show us that we can't.
If you want developers to perform ongoing work on their products, you need to accept a model where there's ongoing pay for that work.
Where did I or OP say this?
> can have upgrades and working software that gets updates without monthly fees to do it
It’s a bad financial model.
> intentionally removed the local vaults
This is a valid disagreement.
Strongly disagree that they're part of the group of SaaS companies trying to price gouge their users.
Dislike of SaaS isn't limited to monthly fees, but the lack of features they removed to encourage SaaS adoption
