Just the same as if the standalone version becomes much more expensive for the next version. This is a free market, there's lot of great choices out there. If 1Password no longer becomes worth the cost of entry, I move to another product. It's how I keep my 1Password database in sync with my Keepass2 database since there's no 1Password app for Linux.
What lock-in? Agilebits makes it extremely easy to get your data out of 1Password. Not that AgileBits will do this, but that's how you successfully execute lock-in.
I'm ashamed to admit that I let it go on for nearly two years.) Getting one month resolved would be easier than getting several months credited back. And the more I let it go, the worse the call was going to get. It would take at least 15 minutes of obsequious incompetence to get it resolved. But I knew, from past experience, that calling Sprint was the worst - the absolute fucking worst. Every month, I committed to calling Sprint to getting it resolved. Some third-party was billing me for a fortune telling service. (A decade ago, I noticed a recurring extraneous $1.00 charge on my Sprint bill. At what incremental cost will you finally decided that the huge hassle of switching password platforms is worth the extra buck a month? Probably never. The more likely scenario is that in 2019, the price is $4. But if they don't, you're kind of trapped. Hopefully they'll continue to produce great and reliable software. In the past, they had to earn my upgrade money. Nobody is against subscriptions because they don't want companies to have a "viable and ongoing revenue stream." They're against being held hostage. Maybe Dave Teare succumbs to his meth habit. Then what are you going to do? Maybe they get bought out. Hopefully they'll always, "do the right thing." The fact that they even offer standalone version is a good sign.īut at some point, they could simply decided that 1Password is worth much more than $3 per month. I think we’re entering an era where more software developers are upfront about the need for ongoing revenue – 1Password becomes useless to me if it goes unmaintained and loses compatibility with the latest OSes and browsers, so why pretend that it’s viable without an ongoing revenue stream?ĪgileBits, move to subscription aside, seems like a great company. Of all the software in my life, I think it’s been by far the most reliable, and a few dollars a month is worth paying for that. Yeah, I didn’t even think before taking out a 1Password sub.
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