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Posted by WSP
Jan 20, 2015 at 07:40 PM
Evernote seems to be going through a phase of retrenchment. First we learned about some substantial staff cuts, and now today we have an announcement that they are ending support for Hello, Peek, Blackberry 7, and Blackberry Playbook:
https://blog.evernote.com/blog/2015/01/20/evernote-end-support-hello-peek-blackberry-7-playbook/
I’m not sure whether any of this is good or bad news for those of us who use Evernote, but it is a useful reminder of how transitory everything in the digital world is.
Posted by gunars
Jan 20, 2015 at 08:25 PM
> it is a useful reminder of how transitory everything in the digital world is.
More specifically, things in the cloud-based digital world. On the other hand, my 20 year old EccoPro still works just fine on Win7 :-)
Posted by 22111
Jan 22, 2015 at 01:31 PM
You will certainly remember that I, some one year ago, asked why EN had about 155 developers on their payroll (any ideas upon this would have been welcomed, but no - so don’t be astonished now that they asked themselves the same question, finally), which was an outrageous number even if you did NOT compare it with the usual 1-man corps we’re accustomed to in the outlining business.
And re the second post, as I told you, there are versions of that program available in the web which will make you reinstall Win and all from scratch - so don’t complain when following bad advice to download and install such versions (which are all “unauthorized” of course). But then, some people dream of an information world where any text is plain text, so let them pay their respective price to pay.
Posted by Paul Korm
Jan 22, 2015 at 05:27 PM
I don’t read the Hello, Peek and Blackberry announcements on the blog as anything more than ordinary culling of little-used features, combining older features with new products, and eliminating support for obsoleted OS platforms. Things that every developer does over time.
Posted by dan7000
Jan 24, 2015 at 03:15 PM
For years I have been hearing predictions of EN’s demise only to see it get bigger and more popular.
The thing that has convinced me recently that EN as a personal product (as opposed to some business collaboration platform) really could be dying was this thread on the EN forums: https://discussion.evernote.com/topic/66103-power-user-discontent-best-alternatives-to-en/
The key thing about the thread is that participants include forum members who for *years* have been absolute 100% EN fans. People like BurgersNFries, who were crowned EN “evangelists” by the company and who monitored the forum constantly answering questions and coming out to attack anybody who dared to question EN’s product trajectory—and who now says she is abandoning the product for OneNote. A number of others on the thread have also been huge EN supporters or at least hugely involved in the EN community like JMichael and jbenson2. Now all of them are looking for alternatives.
When you lose your biggest fans—and when they publicly use your forums to talk about how best to abandon your product—that’s a sign.