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I already fund it by paying for iCloud. App makers need to stop reinventing the wheel and then using that to justify subscription pricing.

Edit: 1Password is a perfect example. It worked fine for years with any kind of third party sync I wanted - from Dropbox to Syncthings - but now I need to pay for a subscription because 1Password wants me to use their infrastructure.



This! Why does everyone and their mother need to host their own backend for basic sync? The likelihood that the end user has some kind of cloud account already is extremely high today, you don’t add much value by adding yet another “someone else’s computer” to the mix?




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