Even worse, I'm hearing that they apparently waited until after this earnings call to inform employees. Truly living up to their core values of— checks notes— Integrity and Kindness.
Last week, I wrote an Add-on for GoogleSheets that scrapes a defined list of company job boards for jobs that fit my criteria, adds them to the sheet, and sends me an SMS with Twilio when a new one is added. Runs every hour, and I can be one of the first people to apply for a newly posted job without having to monitor 15 different sites manually. I also use the sheet to track the application status.
> but the fact that they seem to have willy-nilly removed local vaults does.
They're a business, and 97% of their users were already on the subscription model. If you were running a business, and 97% of your users had abandoned a feature that was a headache for you to maintain, would you stubbornly keep wasting time and money on it?
As much as I'm "meh" on Electron, I rarely use the actual 1Password App. On the other hand, I use the Firefox extension 30+ times a day, and that's about as far from a native app as you can get. So I think I'm fairly unlikely to notice a huge issue, and will instead be pleased that consolidating on Electron gives them greater feature velocity.
> it's not unreasonable to expect it to work for some period of time after the purchase.
"it works" and "the developer gives me support" are two different things. In this case, I'm sure the shareware he wrote still "worked," but clearly they thought they were entitled to perpetual updates or the ability to chat to the developer any time they like.
As far as I'm concerned, the SLA of $10 shareware I volunteered to pay for is "whatever the developer is willing and able to provide." It's $10. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Fwiw, 1Password isn't nuking 1P7 or existing local vaults. Those users are free to keep using v7 for as long as Apple or Microsoft allow the app to be installed on the OS. (And I do agree, macOS and iOS are both quite abrupt about cutting off support and I commend Windows for going to great lengths to avoid it)
They said that 97% of their users are already on subscriptions. I get that local vault users are disappointed, but there's an app for you and it's called Bitwarden.
I think 1Password made a smart business decision. By cutting loose the need to support local vaults, they can focus more development energy on other things that 97% of their users will appreciate. It's a numbers game.
That said...Electron? Ugh. I already spend half my day grumbling about the Slack app.