I'm glad this "made by humans" thing is starting to go the way of "made with &heart; in California", background videos of macbooks & coffee, and the burrito emojis. Though I'm looking forward to the next cringeworthy cali startup meme.
> Though I'm looking forward to the next cringeworthy cali startup meme.
Like half a cringeworthy Cali startup’s engineers spending their morning at Sightglass discussing an article about a password manager software being bought and lamenting whatever that future holds for Windows support, you mean? While their white male founder is parading around saying he’s making the world a better place with his singular vision about a grand Kubernetes mumble mumble, but entertaining a slow progression of M&A offers to cash out and just dump the entire company on Red Hat or Google to sort out because “serial entrepreneur” is a better title than ever hitting one nail or dropping one load of fries? Meanwhile, deadlines keep missing because the engineers are busy commenting on this article as noted, and arguing about JavaScript frameworks, and “WFH” every Tuesday and Thursday because commuting like everyone else for $175,000 cash is just too hard for precious snowflake engineers (seriously, have you smelled BART?), and God help anyone who schedules a 10am meeting. Remember, machine learning is this cycle’s password to get a YC check, and start your own journey to enriching your wealth and throwing a bunch of starry-eyed people who mystifyingly trusted you into whatever horrible business unit of whatever horrible corporation writes you the check you’ve earned on account of your complete lack of professional experience, biological fortunes, and who you’ve done cocaine and/or Bitcoin with most recently. Oh, and you were so busy making money, you didn’t stop to notice you’ve literally handed every nation state in the world citizenry command and control capabilities they only could have dreamed of before this stupid industry found a whiteboard and daringly ventured, “what if we put millions of dollars into letting Justin Bieber type 140 characters to fans, because that could never go wrong?”
Did you mean that kind of meme? If not, I may have some bad news.
You added an unnecessary level of indirection. The startups don’t have memes. They are the meme.
You could make that same comment without throwing 'white male' in the mix and it wouldn't have lost any substance.
I'll take 'my humans and I' style cringe over laboriously pointing out somebody's skin colour and gender as defining characteristics any day. There's nothing intelligent about it.
Actually, it’s a well-founded specific criticism (all of them are; no accidents there) of an underlying problem which contributes to the very concept I’m laboriously explaining. I note you didn’t refute my point at all, choosing instead to somewhat ironically call it unintelligent, and that you’re vaguely upset about it without a clear path to proving me wrong should speak more to what I’m trying to tell you.
I don't really see how most founders being white is a criticism - sure most of them are in a position of privilege, but that's because they're born into the upper classes and went to universities whose degrees cost more than most people's houses. The race factor comes from the fact that the disproportionate majority of wealthy families in the US are white. I mean, you don't see a proportional share of black or hispanic founders in Cali but you also don't see a proportional share of working-class white founders from the heartland either. We have the same thing in the UK.
I for one am having a hard time discerning your point, white males or no white males. The point between the lines seems to be that you wish you were getting rich.
That's a relief. Apple acquiring 1Password would torpedo any chance of getting a decent implementation on Windows. The implementation and integration on OS X are sublime, but Windows still leave a LOT to be desired.
The 1Password X extension works great on linux [1], including Chrome and Firefox.
We use the Teams feature with developers across macOS, Linux, and sometimes Windows. The web interface allows us to manage multiple password "vaults" in a single place, and those credentials are then easily accessible via the browser extension.
It's sometimes a bit funky in the update times though. I'll add a password or note and I'll have to wait till the next reboot or some other uncertain amount of time until I'm able to access that pass/note in 1Px
Still blows LastPass out the water even with that flaw.
I agree that 1Password on Windows has issues, but I feel like the developers got screwed by Microsoft on this one: they went all in on a UWP version, then had to throw all that out and basically start from square one when it became clear that UWP was a dead end. So I cut them some slack on that score. 1Password for Windows is improving, it's just taking a while (version 7 is a big step up, for example)
Last time I checked, about half of the windows market is running Windows 7 which doesn't support UWP. So UWP is a dead end for anyone who needs broad compatibility.
There's a difference between being quiet about an acquisition and just completely lying about it though- especially from a company that relies on being considered trustworthy
If they said, "1P doesn't comment on rumors, etc or we have no comments at this time" like Apple it would be very off brand for them and would make people assume they were getting bought. If they didn't say anything people would assume they were getting bought. So all they can do is deny without blatantly lying such as they can't say something like, "we have had no talks with Apple about an acquisition or offering our special program to apple employees.". But they can say something like rumors are false, since they don't say what part of the rumor is false, and they aren't planning to sell until they actually do. We'll know very soon if Apple employees do get a special version soon and if that part of the rumor is true, one can assume they eventually will purchase them, or talent purchase.
They say that they currently plan to remain independent. It doesn't mean there're no acquisition talks. And also this doesn't mean that there're no conditions under which they consider being acquired.
Also this response. :D
Bryan Jones @bdkjones 15m15 minutes ago Replying to @1Password @markgurman
I’d literally pay Apple to acquire you just to avoid more “my humans and I” tweets.