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This kind of announcement tends to ring all kinds of alarm bells for me. What kinds of changes should we expect to make those huge investments worthwhile for the investors? My 1Password installation is grandfathered from a time when it was just a standalone app, without subscription. Will it just stop working one day to bully me into subscribing? Can you even start using 1Password these days without buying a subscrip…
They will probably go Dropbox route. Dropbox used to be an excellent file sync cloud service with a robust support on many platforms. They did just one thing and did it well. Now Dropbox is positioning themselves as business-team-collaboration-streamlining-platform for everything whose software is balancing between poorly programmed malware and useless enterprise bloatware.
Has anyone migrated easily between password managers? Manually entering my (hundreds?) of unique logins/passcodes would be quite a chore.
Migration was a simple matter of exporting a CSV and then just correctly selecting the column order for KeePass import.
For those who don't want to trust a third party, even with their encrypted data, I believe that home NAS sync-when-available is possible - I personally haven't tested the implications of syncing changes from multiple devices at the same time in that scenario.
They will probably go Dropbox route. Dropbox used to be an excellent file sync cloud service with a robust support on many platforms. They did just one thing and did it well. Now Dropbox is positioning themselves as business-team-collaboration-streamlining-platform for everything whose software is balancing between poorly programmed malware and useless enterprise bloatware.
Yes, this is old news and sour grapes on my part. I just don't yet feel like migrating to bitwarden.
I've been using 1password for 12 years since I saw it on a tutorial on peepcode.com. I actually taught my mother how to use it, she's been using it for 9 years, and last weekend she was upgrading all her passwords to use 2fa with the QR code capturing facility.
We had to go find the 1password classic browser extension (something stopped working, needed to reinstall it) and that took a bit of doing. 1password is not making it easy to find anymore, and when she contacted customer support (before talking to me), their response was to upgrade to a paid account and store your passwords on a server.
Ugh.
Honestly, now that they've raised this much cash, would it really be that big of an inconvenience or lift for them to give mac users a native app instead of the electron one and keep allowing legacy users like me to use 1password with our existing licenses and dropbox?
I think they'd be able to hire some additional developers and product/project people to make it happen. Not continuing to work on the classic project just feels like a kick in the shins.
Now, I'm building out my kubernetes cluster at home, and bitwarden is something I'm going to experiment with as a backup, but 1password 7 works fine and I just don't want to migrate to a paid account.
C'mon 1password, make your legacy customers happy!
`But we don’t just want to keep up; our goal is to push the envelope and explore beyond the boundaries of traditional password management.` Hmmm, sounds like the time to migrate may be sooner than I'd hoped.
1. native app (no bullshit JS based) for speed 2. the same keybindings CMD+\ or Option+CMD+\ to fill in or pop up the menu 3. sync with icloud 4. not look like total shit (ie. lastpass)
Do these basic things and I think you can easily steal 1pass users.
They're a paid service. Why do they need so much extra funding?! There's definitely going to be a feature creep and annoying changes. Time to consider the alternatives again :(
What is it that they plan to add that needs 620 mil ?
Seems like a lot of people are missing the piece as to probably why they need the money (and where they're pointing the company in the future). Future of 1Password: https://www.future.1password.com/