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Never paid for an upgrade.
Fortunately, I never used it because I also failed at YouTube pretty hard.
They've never charged an upgrade fee in large part because the Mac App Store can't.
On one hand, I'm like, wow, I've gotten some good value out of this and I'm glad to have bought these tools a thousand years ago.
On the other hand, as both somebody who sells software through a subscription and also somebody who recognizes business realities here, I think the days of my perpetual one-time purchase license
even working and getting the new version, let alone being available to new purchasers, those days might be numbered.
But we'll see.
As it is right now, today, this looks purely additive in terms of we get more options,
There's some new updates and the icons all got weird and a little bit worse.
But, you know, net, it's pretty good.
We respond to this episode by one password.
It's easy to assume that if you have a small business, being small will let you fly under the radar.
But the reality is that small businesses are targeted more and more by bad actors through cybercrime.
And the criminals know that lean teams often lack the resources to prevent or respond to security breaches.
But the good news is even the smallest teams can foil cybercrime with 1Password.
1Password provides simple security to help small teams manage the number one risk that bad actors exploit, weak passwords.
Now, compromised passwords, it's a huge problem.
It's always been a huge problem.
A password manager should be the first security purchase you make for your team.