I can’t get too angry about them requesting money to update their software on major rewrites. The company works hard to update their software and support it. In the end, I would have to pay even more just to upgrade from 1Password 6 to 1Password 7. I had paid over $100 on various versions of 1Password for various system, and I decided to go with subscription. Using 1Password for three years is $108 and it just keeps going up and up and up. I'd rather pay a one-time price - $36 or $72 or $49.99 or whatever. Boom! All existing life subs only good for the sunseted product. Sounds like they need to pull a SlySoft to RedFox reincarnation. When I left the charity was still desperately trying to work out how to somehow degrade or abolish the lifetime memberships. After 5-10 years the charity found they’d hollowed out their membership income plus they were stuck supporting an expensive, highly vocal and well connected group for free for the rest of their lives. Seemed like a good idea at the time but was quite possibly one of the worst financial decisions they ever made.Īll their keenest most enthusiastic members promptly brought lifetime memberships and never paid a penny again. I once worked at a membership charity (ie funded by annual membership fees) that had one day decided to fix a dip in income by offering expensive lifetime memberships. I am willing to pay a subscription as long as I think their priorities are aligned with mine.Īnother comment on subscriptions vs perpetual related to my earlier post: I am also a Plex user and I bought in at the Lifetime level (pay once and enjoy everything forever).īut Plex does not seem to be working as hard as it used to on useful features, and a theory discussed in the user base is a funding crunch: By letting people like me pay just once, Plex cannot get any more financial support from Plex's best customers. That, not the subscription, are what make me question whether I should switch to something else. I would be willing to go there, but what is actually giving me pause is the recent evidence pointing to a shift toward large enterprise accounts and less on families and individuals. I have admittedly held off on the subscription this far, but the next major version will no longer support perpetual licenses and local is going all cloud, all subscription. I am currently a 1Password customer and I have been loyal so far. Of course the other route is open source, as long as you have faith that the unpaid volunteer developers stay motivated, and it doesn't turn into one of those projects where they have like one Mac developer who is too busy with his day job to make some badly needed changes. The most consistent revenue stream is subscriptions. It seems to be in my best interest to make sure it is funded at a consistent level over the long term, not occasionally cash-crunched or laying off people because of a revenue slowdown between major upgrades. If the developers are good password manager developers, they will work every day to keep up with the latest security vulnerabilities and changing browser/app technologies to make sure their product works smoothly with everything while remaining as bulletproof as possible. This is about holding the keys to all of our most sensitive personal and business data. This isn't just a game or a flashlight or a nice UI customization tweaker. This may be a Unpopular Opinion, but I think something like this is what I am most likely to pay a subscription for. Am I the only one who doesn't like software subscriptions, particularly for something like this? Then I saw it was subscription-based ($2.99/mo). I just took a look at 1Password and was impressed.
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