[bombcar]

It's exactly this - the original switch to SaaS was a high price to pay for basically what you already had if you had local sync/dropbox setup.

They finally fixed many of the objections with the "family" SaaS subscription and it just works and the price may be "low enough" that I don't bother figuring out a way out of it - but it is still pretty much the perfect example of "locked in".

[ssully]

What do you mean by locked in? When I think of locked in, I imagine it being hard to cancel and move to another service. I switched to 1Password last year from LastPass and the first thing I checked was the process for exporting my data. It seemed on par with LassPass, which was very simple, so I made the switch.

[bombcar]

That's the locked in - they have all your passwords and (in theory) could make a change that makes it hard to extract.

[djrogers]

Using the term ‘locked in’ to mean ‘some day something maybe might lock me in’ is a huuuuuuge stretch. To the point that I’d say you’re wrong.