My problem with the 1Password subscription model
Software companies absolutely need recurring revenues to survive, new users are hard and expensive to get, and you need to keep an active development team. Historically it was upgrades, you gave customers new features in trade for upgrade revenue, which was usually a great deal for all.<p>But nowadays that&#x27;s lots harder, upgrades don&#x27;t exist on iOS at all. And when their key features are already in the product, lots of users won&#x27;t see the point of upgrading.<p>But what they and the author miss is that keeping software operating is a great deal of work. In 1Password&#x27;s case just compatibility and bug fixing on 4 or 5 operating systems is likely a substantial ongoing effort. On iOS alone my guess is they have to support 3 different major OS versions at a time.<p>The disconnect is users who bought a version that worked on iOS 7 or Windows 7 and never paid a dime since expecting a free Windows 10 and iOS 11 update.