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gussic
Super Contributor
4 years ago

Please deploy 1P8 to App Store

Hi there, I had a bit of a search (admittedly it may have been a boy look) but I can't seem to find the reasoning behind not releasing 1Password 8 in the macOS App Store. I get some people will pr...
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MGDominguez
New Contributor
4 years ago

Having it in the Mac App Store was very convenient for those of us who are still used to doing clean installs on every major macOS release (x.1, of course, never x.0). Most of my apps are there, so after I clean install I just went to the Mac App Store and downloaded away.

I guess with all the constraints and whatnot that Apple places in developers, not many see it as worth the trouble anymore, which is a bit disappointing. I've seen a few old guard Mac apps shun the App Store.

For now it doesn't matter much since I'm still on V7, but when I eventually update to v8 I'll add it to my list of apps I have to go and hunt down an installer. It's kinda funny that they are enterprise apps that I have to use and don't really want to, 1Password doesn't belong there 🙂