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End of the Road for Xmarks

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201 points willwagner | 2 comments | 27 Sep 10 23:27 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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ajg1977 ◴[28 Sep 10 01:41 UTC] No.1734276[source]▶
Man, I'm gutted. I use Xmarks every day to sync from my work & windows machines (Firefox) to my MacBook (Safari) and thus to my iPhone / iPad. I'd have happily paid $5 a month or so to use Xmarks and I imagine I'm not alone.

It's really unfortunate that they won't even try the freemium, or (shock!) even the outright pay to play approach. I'm sure with two million users there would have been enough paying customers to create a profitable business.

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1. buro9 ◴[28 Sep 10 08:41 UTC] No.1735004[source]▶
I honestly didn't know xmarks existed, I probably missed it because I used to be more of an Opera user before Chrome with only a fleeting interest in Firefox inbetween. Firefox I moved to because of Weave, and I only fully shifted to Chrome when the sync became full-featured. Xmarks may not be able to compete within a single browser, but the killer play is syncing across them.

Having just read the feature list I would happily pay $5 per month for the secure password syncing across browsers.

The bookmarks have a little value to me, but the password syncing has pretty significant value.

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2. twistedanimator ◴[28 Sep 10 11:23 UTC] No.1735293[source]▶
If all you need is secure password syncing, you should check out LastPass (http://lastpass.com/).