Eric_WVGG

Am I the on person who disabled the always-on display? Like… I always know approximately what time it is, it’s not hard, and if I’m working then I’m usually looking at a MacBook that has the time clearly visible… so anyway I get well over a day and a half off each charge, can’t complain about that at all.

I upgraded to the 6 from a 3 so my impressions are much, much more favorable than the reviewers’.

maltz said:

1Password is by far my favorite password manager, and I use it heavily across Mac, iOS, and Windows.  But they have long had a VERY dismissive attitude towards user requests, and the difficulty of outright buying the app instead of subscribing is also pretty off-putting.

Funny that you mention that… just two weeks ago I submitted a feature request to add "MFA Passwords" to the Categories section. MFA autofill is hit-or-miss, I wanted the ability to just look up MFAs quickly without having to type in "a-m-a-z-o-" to find them.

The respondent from 1Password was… yeah, dismissive is the right word. Told me that 1Password does MFA. "yes obviously." Told me that there's already a list of passwords, and that it's searchable. "yup, got that." Told me that I could copy an MFA password by tapping on it. "yes. if you tap on it in the right place… that's a separate thing, never mind." Told me that it does MFA autofill. "most of the time." sigh

chadbag said:

Honest question:   What does something like 1password offer me above what I get for free with the keychain IF I don’t care about cross platform (meaning outside of Apple) use?  I don’t care about android or windows. 

I’m happily just using KeyChain which covers me on macOS, iOS, iPad, etc. 

1. the UI for iCloud Keychain (Keychain Access on the Mac, and some dippy little section in Settings on iOS) is pretty awful.
2. 1Password lets you have multiple keychains (or "vaults" in their parlance). Every time I take a contract with a startup, among the first things they do is send me a corporate vault containing all the logins I'll need and where I can store my own.
3. that multiple vault thing goes for family access as well. You and a spouse can have shared and separate keychains, selectively share with kids, etc.
4. 1Password allows you to store secure documents. I have things like a photo of my vaccine card, my state ID, various personal notes kept there. (Keychain Access will let you store secure documents, but only text, not photos)
5. the big one — MFA logins. If you're using SMS codes sent to your cellphone, you're a stone-cold chump. Highly insecure. There are some 3rd party apps like Google Authenticator and Authy*, they're very poorly made; 1Password's built-in MFA rocks.
6. password breaches — 1Password keeps an eye on haveibeenpwned.com password leaks and lets you know when a stored password has been exposed.

Despite all these, I'd probably swap to iCloud Keychain if they just did MFA. However, I think Apple is just hoping MFA goes away in favor of Login with Apple (it never will) or something something FaceID/TouchID (possible).


* irony: I dumped Authy for MFA in favor of 1Password because Authy is another dogshit Electron app.

Augh. This news — that a SwiftUI version actually exists and is shipping, just not on Mac — just makes me even angrier.

flydog said:

The decision was likely based on cost-cutting/laziness, and 1Password is trying to shift the blame. 

I'm not sure cost-cutting is exactly the right term… the more measured explanation is, they care more about corporate customers (who buy big hundred-seat licenses) than personal users. Corporate buyers care less about UX and performance than seamless cross-platform compatibility. 1Password's Windows app has always lagged behind Mac, this change will keep them up to speed forever.

I guess you could call their inability to hire a competent Windows team as "cost-cutting," or their inability to make a good Windows App as "laziness", but it's not quite the whole story.

Regardless, I'm out. So far https://elpass.app is treating me fine as an individual. https://outercorner.com/secrets-mac also looks quite good. Neither have vault sharing though, which even in non-corporate situations kind of sucks because family plans are a real thing.

bluefire1 said:

As I’ve done every year beginning in 2007, I’ll be getting the top end model, but am especially hoping the 2022 top of the line model is a flip phone. My pants pockets will thank Apple.

how would a thicker phone make your, er, pants happy