[guiambros]

I have no problem with your intention to move users towards annual subscriptions, nor offering cloud storage as an optional feature. This would certainly be more convenient for newbies.

I also have no problem in paying you $36 per year for the same functionality that I have today with the downloadable version. I guess between the family version, plus iOS, plus upgrades, I've been paying the same amount every couple of years.

But the moment you start forcing users to use your cloud storage (instead of locally managed options, like ssh, local sync, etc), you lost me forever.

Please make sure you keep these options very separate. Give security conscious users the option to not have their computers "phoning home" to your servers, and to explicitly enable cloud sync only if they want.

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I like the separation between services right now. 1Password manages the client, Dropbox handles the storage, because they're experts at that. The same is true for Arq, a popular Mac backup software. Arq handles the client interactions but uses third party storage providers to store the data. I trust Amazon to store my backups.

Granted, backups are not the same as passwords, but they are both important to maintain in terms of data integrity and security. And I wouldn't trust Arq to run their own cloud storage platform and I don't trust 1Password to operate their own cloud password storage solution, either.