In defence of 1Password v8 for Mac

As being just a user, I don't care for developer-centric views of an app. Call me ignorant, but consider the outside view, because it's what the customer sees.

I also don't care about Apple-specific things, because I'm a Windows and Android user. I want a functional Windows app. Actually, I chose 1Password before I realized it is a Apple-centric product and the Apple-specific versions of 1Password have quite some more features the Windows and Android versions provide. If I knew that, I wouldn't have taken 1Password. I rather choose a password manager designed for Windows in the first place.
However, I have a 1 year subscription, so I will stick at least 1 year to not throw that money out of the window.

Now, with version 8, 1Password seems to develop a single unified app for every platform. I hope, same feature set for everything. I support that very much. Such development usually means to drop platform-specific development tools specific for one platform only. I know Apple has a specific view on everything and strong direction to vendor lock in, so I encourage every developer to free himself from these restrictions. As far as I learnt, Apple started to bring in some password managing OS tools, which may replace password managers such as 1Password some time in the future. As we know Apple, at that time Apple might just disable all external password managers and just allow their own. Considering this, I assume it's a wise decision by 1Password to better support non-Apple platforms, because it might be their business basis on Apple might vanish some time in the future.