{"id":11040,"date":"2014-01-21T10:27:28","date_gmt":"2014-01-21T18:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/37prime.wordpress.com\/?p=11040"},"modified":"2014-01-21T10:27:28","modified_gmt":"2014-01-21T18:27:28","slug":"logmein-free-will-be-discontinued-starting-january-21-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/2014\/01\/21\/logmein-free-will-be-discontinued-starting-january-21-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"LogMeIn Free will be discontinued starting January 21, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LogMeIn announces that <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.logmein.com\/it-management\/logmein-changes\" target=\"_blank\">LogMeIn Free will be discontinued<\/a> starting January 21, 2014.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After ten years, LogMeIn\u2019s free remote access product, LogMeIn Free, is going away.\u00a0 We will be unifying our portfolio of free and premium remote access products into a single offering.\u00a0 This product will be a paid-only offering, and it will offer what we believe to be the best premium desktop, cloud and mobile access experience available on the market today. We will be notifying those impacted by the change in the coming days and weeks.\u00a0 In the meantime, we wanted to take a minute to explain the change and help users of LogMeIn\u2019s access products better understand what this means for them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"LogMeIn on iPad\" src=\"http:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/LogMeIn-on-iPad.jpg\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For owners of LogMeIn Ignition for iPad\/iPhone and LogMeIn Ignition for Android<\/p>\n<p>While customers who purchased these apps are impacted by this change, we have taken steps to be especially attentive to these customers.\u00a0 LogMeIn Ignition for iPad\/iPhone and Android app purchasers will receive significant discounts, as well as generous terms to ease the transition.\u00a0 Details of these offers are being sent to Ignition mobile users this week, both via email and in-product notifications.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>LogMeIn Ignition is no longer available on <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/ignition\/id299616801?mt=8\" target=\"_blank\">iTunes App Store<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.logmein.ignitioneu.android\" target=\"_blank\">Google Play Store<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You can <a href=\"http:\/\/help.logmein.com\/SelfServiceKnowledgeRenderer?type=FAQ&amp;id=kA0a0000000shH8CAI\" target=\"_blank\">read the F.A.Q.<\/a> on this change.<\/p>\n<p>It is a long time coming for LogMeIn to discontinue this free service. For more than ten years, LogMeIn has provided free alternative to its competitors. LogMeIn obviously sees the need to increase its profit margin.<\/p>\n<p>I do use LogMeIn Free for some casual remote access. As of today, I have to decide whether I want to upgrade my LogMeIn account, go with LogMeIn competitors or find a free alternative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LogMeIn announces that LogMeIn Free will be discontinued starting January 21, 2014. After ten years, LogMeIn\u2019s free remote access product, LogMeIn Free, is going away.\u00a0 We will be unifying our portfolio of free and premium remote access products into a single offering.\u00a0 This product will be a paid-only offering, and it will offer what we &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/2014\/01\/21\/logmein-free-will-be-discontinued-starting-january-21-2014\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;LogMeIn Free will be discontinued starting January 21, 2014&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[9,327,933,1895,1896,1897,2477,2502,936,3216],"class_list":["post-11040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-mac","tag-android","tag-ios","tag-logmein","tag-logmein-free","tag-logmein-ignition","tag-rdp","tag-remote-access","tag-tech","tag-windows"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcNtU-2S4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}