When Apple announced the iPhone SDK that same team moved on to that platform and created the first version of 1Password for iPhone. The first version of 1Password was a Mac app with a small team of four dedicated to it. This weekend project quickly took over their day job and spawned a whole company and industry. They got tired of manually filling in usernames, passwords, and contact information to test the sites they were building and figured they could build a tool to automate that. The very first version of 1Password was built by Dave and Roustem as a weekend project to help them with their day jobs of building websites. It's going to piss off a significant number of people, but it's what they needed to do given the choices they made a while back.With a fifteen year history, 1Password has seen a lot of changes across all our supported platforms, but the way we’ve built our apps has largely been the same over those years.

But they went 'half-measure' for both - with 1P8 they are going full-measure. Agilebits decided years ago that they wanted to move from being a local vault Mac-first service to a cloud vault cross-platform service. Instead of ripping the plaster off, they slowly pulled it off over a number of years causing maximum pain in the process.ġP8 in general seems to be Agilebits finally deciding what they want to be in a password manager. What we've had for years is a terrible half measure of local vaults being supported but ignored for any future features. Once they decided whether they wanted 1Password to be a local password manager or a cloud password manager, they should have gone 100% in the direction they chose. Personally, I think it's a decision that should have been done ages ago. Agilebits decided years ago that 1Password subscriptions were the future, and this is the natural destination of that. I think the writing was on the wall that they were going to do this many years ago.

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