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This is an incredibly dumb move that ensures I'll be uninstalling 1Password and moving my business elsewhere. With subscriptions, Mac users can hate the Electron version and they will pay for it anyway. Turns out that before subscriptions, Mac users would just not buy the new Electron version and it would hurt AgileBits. Which adds to the irony, because one of the main arguments for subscriptions is always that it brings in continuous funding for development, allowing continuous roll-out of new features to users. Or perhaps, they are not that nice, warm company anymore and this is just a cold business choice. Who knows, maybe they still care and genuinely think this is the best choice for their Mac users, in which case there is a serious disconnect. But the AgileBits founders always projected this image of being a community and of them cherishing their users.

Of course, perhaps people shouldn't be surprised, AgileBits is a business after all. Many people have poured hundreds of dollars into their product because it was such a great Mac app.Īnd now that people are locked into cloud storage and a subscription and AgileBits suddenly morphs from an independent Mac developer into a VC-funded Electron developer, a lot of people feel betrayed. AgileBit was that dedicated developer that developed top-tier macOS apps (like OmniGroup). Native will, of course, be a bit faster and have more features, but for that you need to have a dedicated developer that knows the specialities and can make use of them. Not sure if there’s anything on Linux? You could maybe fall back to Electron, with the the UI rendered via react-native-web to turn it back to HTML.

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Last time I checked on RN on MacOS (well over a year ago) it was quite immature, but with Microsoft pushing it on both Windows and Mac, it could become a realistic option soon (if it’s not already). It would probably be more work than Electon because each platform will have differences in how it renders, but much less work than building separate native apps.

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React Native could potentially provide a good compromise - write your app in JS but it renders using native UI widgets, resource usage is lower because it’s just using a JS engine rather than a full browser. However, I do agree that Electron can give a sub-optimal experience compared to a native app in many cases.

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The developer productivity and consistency gains of working on one codebase rather than 2 or 3 cannot be argued with, and I’m confident more and more software will be moving in this direction regardless of the opinion of (what is probably) a fairly small number of hardcore users. I’ll be interested to see how React Native on desktop progresses. Maybe people manage to make it work for them but as our company grows, I’m going to be pushing harder and harder to remove it from the organisation (and I’ve been using it since 2010). Or to see all the passwords that an account had accessed. When I last checked, there was no obvious way to audit which accounts had accessed a given pw. Sure, it’s not a file store, but you have to live with the crappy ui or use some other tooling for other metadata. You can add files but they’re weirdly half linked to passwords, floating about without anyway to see which passwords they’re linked to.

Or you send a copy, but now you have 2 copies that aren’t linked.

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Simple things like sharing a single password between teams mean you need to create a shared vault that both teams have access to and put the pw in there. We only have about 20 people using it and it’s a not that great from an admin perspective. We use 1P for our business and honestly, I’m not sure how fit for purpose it is in the enterprise domain.

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