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by simondotau 1771 days ago
When Apple announced their significant upgrades to iCloud Keychain a few months ago, I immediately thought that it was unfair "Sherlocking" of 1Password. AgileBits had been out there offering a first class macOS/iOS password manager experience for a long time and it seemed rude of Apple to step on their turf so blatantly.

I still have sympathy for AgileBits, but these feelings have diminished somewhat now.
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Kaibeezy 1771 days ago
If their Mac app has been sherlocked to death, why wouldn’t this make you feel more sympathy?

Do you think Apple knew AgileBits was dropping their Mac version and stepped into the opening? Or did AgileBits step back once it became pointless to compete with an upcoming OS feature?

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simondotau 1771 days ago
These significant upgrades to iCloud Keychain are still in beta (macOS Monterey and iOS 15). If AgileBits' announcement represents their response to a competitor that hasn't even released yet, if it means they're diminishing their own product before the competition has even arrived, then I would have zero sympathy for them.

Quite frankly that seems an absurd hypothesis. In the face of competition from Apple, the correct response by AgileBits should have been to double down on product quality and pushing feature depth.

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Kaibeezy 1771 days ago
Wellll... Apple is something more than a competitor in this situation. Their own OS; world’s most valuable and profitable company; and so forth.

I can hear the AgileBits marketing department theme song / threnody... https://youtu.be/9yQKDj_V4Gk

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doctoboggan 1771 days ago
What upgrades are you referring to? I’m looking to migrate from 1Password but maybe keychain will be good enough.

Does it work with other browsers on the Mac?

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simondotau 1771 days ago
https://www.macrumors.com/2021/06/11/macos-monterey-password...

They've released a cross-platform Chrome extension, plus a native Windows client. No Firefox as far as I'm aware, sadly.

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