It’s a fucking password manager, not a 3D design app for god’s sake. It had some advantages but overall it underperformed on macOS and the UX was worse. What about a universal bundle? Oh, Electron doesn’t support that? We have a large Apple dev team and had a parallel SwiftUI codebase being developed for about 6 months. Wow, what an improvement from a user experience perspective. Is this a joke? To minimize file size and maximize performance, we’re offering separate Apple silicon and Intel builds. What makes this Linux release even more amazing is it was created from scratch and developed using new languages and techniques most of our team never used before. There are some juicy user reactions following this move announcement on AgileBits community forums. There is a huge Mac fans base of 1Password, it’s not surprising to see the kind of reactions that we see all over. But, this move is quite surprising to me, to say the least. I guess they didn’t like SwiftUI or Catalyst. I mean, it’s not like if they didn’t have a Mac app, right? They do, it’s already supporting Apple silicon too. I don’t understand a company with a mature codebase built on AppKit since forever, turning to a cross-platform framework like Electron. What is going on with AgileBits, anyway? AgileBits seems to be spreading all over the place in recent years (turning to the corporate market, adding Linux, etc.) which could explain in part what is happening now.
This time, behind a visual redesign (which I don’t think is an improvement, btw), it’s about 1Password 8 being converted to an Electron-based app on the Mac. Don’t miss the comments after the summary). Another day, another controversy (to get a good summary, head to Michael Tsai’s website.
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