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My guess is they will follow 1Password and have more strategies to monetize users. I wonder what the difference between the two services will be at the end of the day.

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1Password in my experience was the biggest scum of bait and switch I ever faced. They used to do "lifetime" licenses which I bought into, but wouldn't support it beyond one year of release and stop giving me updates. Later, they invested heavily into the cloud side of things, and brought in confusing subscription-based pricing which made it expensive and difficult to understand. All they're doing as of now is trying to increase prices and tear into your pockets.

With BW I have never expected the same and I am still hopeful on giving them the benefit of doubt.

1Password NEVER had lifetime licenses. We made this decision since day one because we had a product before that died because it was a "lifetime" purchase. The 1Password license is valid for the major version of the app. The license purchased would still work with that version today. If you look at the release history of 1Password apps — every version had a ton of updates made long after the app was no longer on sale. For example, 1Password 7 was updated just a month ago: https://app-updates.agilebits.com/product_history/OPM7

The licenses are also confusing — people had to purchase apps separately for every platform: macOS, Windows, iOS, Android. And then they had to purchase upgrades separately as well.

Pretty sure 1Password had "standalone" licenses. https://piunikaweb.com/2021/06/22/1password-ceases-all-licen...

The article above talks about them being shutdown

They had "standalone" licenses but those weren't "lifetime licenses" I don't believe.

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