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It would be lame if Apple bought 1Password and continued to charge for it. It doesn't have the same economics of stuff like storage or music streaming and shoul
by jonknee 8y ago
It would be lame if Apple bought 1Password and continued to charge for it. It doesn't have the same economics of stuff like storage or music streaming and should be free if backed by a company like Apple. I have no problem at all paying Agile Bits, but I don't want to pay Apple for a password manager.
- Eridrus 8y agoSo, on one hand, I agree, password managers/FIDO should basically be part of every OS/browser and tech companies should come together to make it all interop seamlessly for the good of society. On the other hand, the biggest barrier to adoption that I have found is people losing their master password. And supporting good account recovery is difficult and expensive. A subscription service that actually had a real way of validating identity for account recovery could be something worth paying for, for people who are not very tech savvy. Maybe we can come up with a good account recovery service without dedicated customer support folks, but the moment you have a bad experience, you're probably going to go back to Password123.
- Nullabillity 8y agoAny possibility of account recovery completely torpedoes the product's security.