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Family/individual accounts are nice and all, but most families/individuals just don't give a fuck about security nearly enough to pay a monthly fee for a passwo

Family/individual accounts are nice and all, but most families/individuals just don't give a fuck about security nearly enough to pay a monthly fee for a password manager, and probably never will. The saturation point for them in this market is not too far off. So they go where there's real money to be made. They are well-positioned to become the default choice to handle corporate day-to-day cyber-security needs of most non-tech businesses, and if they can pull it off even moderately successfully it will make them the biggest Canadian IT company. Family accounts never ever will. That doesn't mean their product won't remain the best* choice for individuals and families. Microsoft also doesn't give a damn about family or single users of Office, yet we all* use it because it's still the best* product on the market. * words like 'all' and 'best' are approximations of what's going on in the real world, not in HN where significant numbers of people may very well be using LibreOffice and the Nth fork of Keepass.

johncalvinyoung 5y ago
Upvoted for your final-line analysis of 'normal for muggles' and how HN is not a representative sample.
lolinder 5y ago
> most families/individuals just don't give a fuck about security nearly enough to pay a monthly fee for a password manager It's more than that, most families that do care about security don't need features beyond what is built into iOS/Android. When I encouraged my wife to start using randomized passwords, I didn't even have to help her get set up. She already knew how to use Apple's password manager, so she just started using it. No setup, no additional monthly fee, just a quick decision to start using it. When we need to share a password, we just read it off to each other and put it in our respective password managers. There aren't really any features in a paid password manager that we miss.

johncalvinyoung 5y ago

Upvoted for your final-line analysis of 'normal for muggles' and how HN is not a representative sample.

lolinder 5y ago

> most families/individuals just don't give a fuck about security nearly enough to pay a monthly fee for a password manager It's more than that, most families that do care about security don't need features beyond what is built into iOS/Android. When I encouraged my wife to start using randomized passwords, I didn't even have to help her get set up. She already knew how to use Apple's password manager, so she just started using it. No setup, no additional monthly fee, just a quick decision to start using it. When we need to share a password, we just read it off to each other and put it in our respective password managers. There aren't really any features in a paid password manager that we miss.