CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@benschwarz @pluralistic appreciate the challenge, but both points couldn't be further from the truth:
Charging for a product - I *want* to pay for my password manager, I want a professional product receiving security updates.
Increasing prices - I'm more than happy for incremental price rises, the economy changes. But, 'AI item naming' - this is product bloat to satisfy investors. Add more features, charge more, higher revenue, more valuation, everyone wins (except the customer).

@ajn142 @pluralistic fair challenge - the bit that leaves a sour taste (for me) is that it's a significant price increase, not based in any way on the cost of serving me as a customer - I'm happy with the app and the service as-is and would accept a nominal increase. But they have increased the price significantly because [my assumptions incoming] they can, and want to boost ARR prior to IPO.
The fact they've tried to gaslight customers in the price increase email is really what annoys me.

A nice subtle #enshittification there 1Password. Adding features no-one wants in a password manager to justify increasing the price. If these had any value you'd be able to sell the additional features as an upgrade, not an arbitrary price increase for all. cc @pluralistic