As a multi device user, it's definitely better for me. I have 2x windows desktop, a Mac laptop, an iPhone and an android tablet. With the current non-subscriptioin pricing model, it will cost me 65 dollars for the two desktop apps, plus another 20 dollars for the android + ios apps - that's a fairly hefty upfront fee. 3 dollars a month (after 6 months) is far more appealing really.
As an aside, it's extremely difficult to find out how much the android pro feature currently costs, I ended up finding it in the comments sectino of one of their posts rather than the google play store or on their website.
But the idea behind a password manager is that you effectively use it in perpetuity. I bought 1Password in 2013 for $50, and the iPhone app for $9. I use it several times a day, and don't see that changing at any point in the near future. At $3/month, I would have be approaching twice what I actually paid, with no prospect for being done with that payment. I get why AgileBits is going to a subscription model; I'm sure they would prefer that I had paid them $96 by now, rather than $59, and that I would go on to pay them another $36 per year every year forever. But the idea that you, as a consumer, are looking at this and seeing an appealing deal suggests you haven't really thought it through very well.
Out of curiosity, when new versions of iOS and macOS get released over the next several years, are you willing to pay for the upgrades the developers will have to inevitably release in order to maintain compatibility with the OS?
Or do you expect your initial $59 purchase in 2013 to truly last in perpetuity?
I'm seeing a more appealing deal than putting out 80 dollars up front. The amount of software that I have paid for up front, and continued to use for longer than 2 years I can count on one hand. I wouldn't be surprised if in 2 years time I had moved to another service. Given that 62 + 20 is the break even point, that's 27 months paid, plus the 6 months up front, just shy of 3 years.
You will definitely not pay again for the Android / iOS apps, unless they release it with another name in the app store, or they introduce another paid option, hiding new features under some switch in their code, otherwise for both Android and iOS it's a pay once model.
I've also had 1Password 6 for at least a year. Nothing new happened since I first bought it. And the Windows client still sucks so horribly that indeed that price isn't justified.
But btw, for 3x desktop licenses I don't think you'll get away with 3 dollars per month ;-)
Well I haven't paid for it, I'm currently using lastpass. Why wouldn't I be able to use their $3 plan for 3 desktop machines? They're all my machines (work desktop, personal desktop, personal laptop) and amount of time I am using more than one at a time is minimal.
You're right, you can use it on all three. Btw, the OS X version is great, more than great, it's the best, but the Windows version is old and kind of unmaintained. Make sure you like it.
As an aside, it's extremely difficult to find out how much the android pro feature currently costs, I ended up finding it in the comments sectino of one of their posts rather than the google play store or on their website.