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Password Manager LastPass Acquires Xmarks
- svag 16y agoI hope LastPass will help Xmarks to overcome its difficulties...
- ashconnor 16y agoby charging for the service. Xmarks is great but I don't think it's a service I would pay for.
- Indyan 16y agoThe core service remains free. Like Lastpass, you will have to pay if you want advanced features like Android and iPhone apps.
- pwman 16y agoThe service will remain free, and we're happy to have you as a free user. Our plan is to continue to add mobile device support and ancillary services on top to convince you that maybe $1/month is worth it. We only need to convince a few percent of people to make this a success.
- tobtoh 16y agoIt would appear that Xmarks is a good fit for LastPass. LastPass already deals with cross-browsing syncing and I would assume that their backend hardware would be generally 'compatible' with whatever requirements Xmarks has. So if LastPass already has a viable Freemium model, then they should be able to integrate Xmarks into their business plan fairly easily.
- ZoFreX 16y agoVery logical fit. LastPass have been making noises about integrating bookmark sync since around the time Xmarks added password sync support, and I'd rather it be this way around than the alternative (LastPass is extremely secure, Xmarks... don't know). This presumably means my bookmarks will sync between all my browsers, computers, and my phone, as well as my passwords. Hoorah! Disclaimer: I am a LastPass subscriber
- mike-cardwell 16y agoI hope XMarks doesn't end up dragging LastPass down with it. Don't get me wrong, they're both good services, but I don't think it's possible to make money with what XMarks offers.
- pwman 16y agoLastPass is already profitable enough to continue supporting Xmarks indefinitely.
- joebananas 16y agoYou know, people storing their passwords on a /free/ service always seemed a wee bit icky to me. What happens when the service goes bust? Will all their passwords be lost, like tears in the rain?
- pwman 16y agoEnough people pay for the advanced service with LastPass (Mobile phone support) to cover all the free users. Even if LastPass was nuked every user still has access to all their data -- a encrypted cached copy is kept on every browser and every phone you ever use. Pull the plug out of your computer and verify yourself...
- st3fan 16y agoAll your bookmarks now belong to them. Sure hope they were encrypted.