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There's no plan to abandon selling 1Password licenses. This has been our bread and butter for a long time. But, Families/Teams makes possible features that previously weren't possible. For instance, it was previously possible to have multiple vaults and share them with other people, but it required sharing the master password for that vault. There was previously no way to limit capabilities of what someone could do with a vault such as read only vaults. With the service we've built, we're able to provide those additional features that we've wanted to create for a long time. That value comes with ongoing costs in servers, bandwidth, and the like, but we're thrilled to be able to provide these new capabilities that weren't possible to do well without the server side component. Beyond that, "ransomware" implies a kind of extortion wherein files are encrypted and the keys are held until a fee is paid. 1Password will never lock you out of your data, even if your subscription lapses. Your account just goes into a frozen state.

prof said:

The pricing is ridiculous. I'd be happy to pay a buck or two per user and month but 12 is just insane.

Please note that this is the price for the Pro plan for 1Password Teams. I'm not sure what your situation is, but 1Password Families for family use is $5 for 5. And early adopters that create their Teams account before August get the Pro features for the price of the Standard plan. Having looked at the pricing for other business plans for services like Dropbox, Slack, and Evernote, we feel our pricing for Teams is very competitive.

macxpress said:

One thing of note for 1Password, if you want iCloud syncing you have to buy it off the Mac App Store. Otherwise, you're stuck with syncing with something like Dropbox which isn't as handy. I strongly recommend this for everyone. It can be a little confusing to get setup, but once you do it works like a charm across devices no matter what browser you're using.

This used to be true, but it is no longer the case. You can read more about this on our blog and we even open sourced the library we created for interacting with CloudKit.

Thanks for the feedback, folks. We love hearing your thoughts.