The hope, presumably, is that existing users with a large amount of data already stored with LastPass will pay the $36 a year rather than shift it all to a competitor that charges slightly less – BitWarden, for example, is just $10 a year though it has fewer features. Competitors tend to limit free accounts either by time or number of passwords that can be saved. While the decision is likely to frustrate LastPass users, it makes good business sense: the service is the best on the market for free users and there aren’t a lot of good reasons to shift to the paid-for product. The security biz will also be pulling email support from its free service, giving access only to a self-help library, as a way to prod users onto its “premium” service. It has clearly calculated that free users who access their passwords on both a laptop and their mobile phone are the ones most invested in the service, and so most likely to be willing to pay $3 a month (or $4 a month for the six-user family option). Thankfully, LastPass hasn’t tried to argue that this split is necessary for technical reasons. So if you go with the computer type, you can continue to use the free version of LastPass with macOS, Windows, Linux, etc, machines, and if you opt for mobile you can use it on iOS, Android, etc. The device types are really two categories: computers, and mobile. Whichever type of device they log into the service first will be set as the default and users will be able to change their decision three times before it’s locked down. Log us out: Private equity snaffles Lastpass owner LogMeIn READ MOREīut from March 16, users will be required to choose which “active device type” they want to use for the free service.
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