Love them or hate them with their subscription push. At least they still provide a standalone license (currently $49, up from $39 yesterday) and keep innovating.
Our team worked really hard on this release. I believe we started sort of doing some research and proof of concept type stuff after WWDC last year and went full time a little over 6 months ago. There's a lot in this release that isn't visible as well.
Version 6 was a set of processes (Main app and Mini) that used XPC for communication. The mini drove the whole ship. With this release we combined both of those into a single process. For the most part no one will ever actually notice this massive change but it brings with it speed improvements, removes a ton of baggage for us as developers so we can focus on things that matter, reduction of complication, and a whole host of great stuff. It's not a feature we can "sell" but as anyone who does development for a living knows it's really great to kill off tech debt when you can and it starts setting the tone for 1Password 7.1 and 7.2 :) There are a ton of great new features that users can use of course, but I know sometimes hacker news likes to hear about the other stuff going on under the hood, too.
We really hope everyone finds something they love about version 7, but we really are interested in constructive criticism. We know there are some pretty big changes in this release and they may or may not be great for everyone but we want to iterate and improve on these things.
I wonder if we might be able to post something technical to our blog about the various iterations of the new look and feel. It was a massive difference along the way. I'm going to suggest this to the team because I think some, like you, might really like to see how it evolved as development progressed.
I'm definitely going to let our designers know about your comment though. They had their work cut out for them on this release.
More fun though is some of this makes a lot of sense to bring to 1Password for iOS.... hint hint...
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[ 6.0 ms ] story [ 23.0 ms ] threadOur team worked really hard on this release. I believe we started sort of doing some research and proof of concept type stuff after WWDC last year and went full time a little over 6 months ago. There's a lot in this release that isn't visible as well.
Version 6 was a set of processes (Main app and Mini) that used XPC for communication. The mini drove the whole ship. With this release we combined both of those into a single process. For the most part no one will ever actually notice this massive change but it brings with it speed improvements, removes a ton of baggage for us as developers so we can focus on things that matter, reduction of complication, and a whole host of great stuff. It's not a feature we can "sell" but as anyone who does development for a living knows it's really great to kill off tech debt when you can and it starts setting the tone for 1Password 7.1 and 7.2 :) There are a ton of great new features that users can use of course, but I know sometimes hacker news likes to hear about the other stuff going on under the hood, too.
We really hope everyone finds something they love about version 7, but we really are interested in constructive criticism. We know there are some pretty big changes in this release and they may or may not be great for everyone but we want to iterate and improve on these things.
Kyle
AgileBits
I wonder if we might be able to post something technical to our blog about the various iterations of the new look and feel. It was a massive difference along the way. I'm going to suggest this to the team because I think some, like you, might really like to see how it evolved as development progressed.
I'm definitely going to let our designers know about your comment though. They had their work cut out for them on this release.
More fun though is some of this makes a lot of sense to bring to 1Password for iOS.... hint hint...
Kyle
AgileBits