| To be fair, it still does all that stuff. I get that these moves make people nervous, and rightfully so. But as it stands every version of 1Password in active development (not including maintenance mode): * Can be licensed standalone. * Supports local & Dropbox vaults. * Was released within the last year, actively supporting those features. The only feature they’ve actually killed off (by not baking into future clients) is WLAN sync. This is a regression for some, but personally I always found it super impractical. I agree that how they are going about this doesn’t inspire confidence that these features will remain in the product, but to some extent it does. While they downplay the hell out of it, 1Password 6 for Windows was a ground up rewrite that ditched local vaults and standalone licensing. Those features were reintroduced in 1Password 7 for Windows, which is a pretty big backtrack for them and requires renewed development effort. AgileBits doesn’t always make the right decision. They develop opinionated software, like most good developers. However, just like the MAS-only decision they made with 1Password 4 and stood by for some time, eventually they do right by their customers. 1Password 7 for Windows is a great example of that. As much as they would love to go cloud only, they heard the feedback and brought back those two key features. At this point, I can’t expect much more than that. |
Not in my experience.
I moved to LastPass the moment Agile Bits decided to not support its (non subscription) 1Password paying customers in having a web access to the vault.
I had bought all 1Password versions + updates (Windows, Android, Mac, iOS) which put me well above $100. One day I simply couldn't use 1Password online, which I relied on for Chrome OS use. Dropbox decided, rightfully, that the public folder shouldn't be used as a static web server, which is what 1Password used as online vaults.
There was a long discussion in Agile Bits' forums about this issue. Agile Bits argued that it wasn't its responsibility to solve this since it was a Dropbox decision and its users could still store and sync the online vault manually on their own servers. I argued that losing automatic sync rendered the feature pretty much useless.
In any case, Agile Bits could have transitioned its users to the subscription model by either giving them subscription time or by offering an alternative to the Dropbox public folder, but it decided that its customers were not worth the effort.
I had a lot of respect for Agile Bits and 1Password, but this was a crappy way to treat its customers, specially considering 1Password was not a cheap product.
LastPass is not as elegant, but I'm happy with it.