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Just to add on to this now that I see that Agliebits staff are in this thread. I'm not against paying for major version updates. Think of it as a tradeoff betw

Just to add on to this now that I see that Agliebits staff are in this thread. I'm not against paying for major version updates. Think of it as a tradeoff between time to market vs. revenue. I'm fine with Teams getting features first (other than security fixes) and paying more infrequently than subscription. It's certainly a business model that previously sustained Agilebits and plenty of other software providers. I get that the HN crowd may not make up a large majority of users at this point but I would think there are still many people that would be happy to spread use of 1Password via word of mouth if you deign to do so.

roustem 9y ago
Thank you, @newman314! While we think that subscription makes it easier to use 1Password and not have to purchase apps and upgrades for every platform, there are many users that prefer to use licenses. We are going to support both for upcoming 1Password 7 on Mac and Windows. The same is true for 1Password service vs host-it-yourself model. I have 30+ vaults shared with my team and family and it is much easier to use the service but I can still keep the data locally and set up sharing manually if needed. There are some features that are simply not possible without the servers doing the heavy lifting: shared vaults and permissions, travel mode, Chromebooks, etc. I just hope that technically savvy HN crowd understands that and doesn't see it as an attempt to push everyone to have a subscription. Roustem, Founder of AgileBits I used to develop 1Password for Mac and iOS. I now develop 1Password service with Go, ReactJS, and Terraform/AWS.