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Posted by rafael costacurta
Dec 3, 2022 at 06:24 PM
Evernote was bought and there was not single mention to it in this esteemed house of productivity affairs…
https://evernote.com/blog/bending-spoons-to-acquire-evernote/
The guys form Keep Porductive believe there will be a comeback, lets see…
https://www.keepproductive.com/blog/2022/8/19/biggest-2023-productivity-predictions?rq=predictions
Posted by satis
Dec 4, 2022 at 04:24 PM
The “guys” at Keep Product is just Francesco D’Alessio. His site has posts supplemented by content by for-hire writer Charlotte who creates SEO-friendly posts for several clients. I don’t know what he’s said lately but when the announcement was made three weeks ago D’Alessio wrote on Medium, “Evernote as we know it could be dead…. Evernote haven’t had a hideously thriving community since 2016, due to the lack of innovation”
I think Evernote is a goner. It got shunted off to a small Milan-based company without experience in productivity software; it makes apps like video editor Splice, 30 Day Fitness, Live Quiz and photo editor Remini. The purchase price is unknown but I bet it was quite low because the purchaser doesn’t have a lot of funding. (At one point Evernote had 250 million users and was valued at $8 billion. Not any more.) Bending Spoons offers no promises that Evernote will be forthcoming with a much-needed overhaul. And this is at a time when membership continues to shrink in the face of free and cheap competition (OneNote, Joplin, Notion, Apple Notes, UpNote, etc etc). On iOS it doesn’t even rank in the Top 100 Productivity apps by download.
And Evernote has been increasing subscription pricing by approximately 50% for grandfathered Plus/Pemium plans (to $50-$65/year), annoying a lot of users in the app’s subreddit. The current Personal plan is $90/year (though you can sometimes get 50%-off that for one year). Compared to robust competition available at a fraction of the price, or free, I don’t think Evernote offers enough advantages to most users or potential users.
Posted by Anthony
Dec 4, 2022 at 07:01 PM
satis wrote:
>It got shunted off to a small Milan-based
>company without experience in productivity software; it makes apps like
>video editor Splice, 30 Day Fitness, Live Quiz and photo editor Remini.
>The purchase price is unknown but I bet it was quite low because the
>purchaser doesn’t have a lot of funding.
The Bending Spoons’ app that probably comes closed (incredibly) to the “cloudy” Evernote is Immuni: a free app (iOS and Android only) used in Italy to trace and inform about Covid. It was downloaded by 15mil. people (or more), since it was officially supported and promoted by the government in 2020. The trace part of it never fully worked, but probably this was due to the lack of NHS expertise to share data. Nevertheless - I guess - BS developed some skills in dealing with privacy, dashboard, and cloud stuff.
They were also able to rise from investors in the summer $340 mil, which were probably used - in part or in full - for the acquisition.
Posted by Christoph
Dec 4, 2022 at 09:42 PM
The story sounds familiar now.
https://twitter.com/ianbremmer/status/1594055335186432003/photo/1
Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Dec 5, 2022 at 06:22 PM
I still keep an Evernote account as a backup for gathering random information. The one thing Evernote hasn’t been beaten at (in my view) is in the ubiquitous methods for putting data into it. For a long time I have found the interface confounding and uninviting, so it is not my primary PKM… shockingly, that’s still a work in progress and probably always will be.
I don’t think we can know yet just what the acquisition of Evernote will mean. If history is a guide, it will mean the slow fading away of Evernote… that’s what seems to always happen, whether it is whether it is ECCO Pro being acquired by Symantec, or Brainstorm being acquired by whomever that was, or, well, you name it. When another company acquires an established app, it usually is bad news for users. But that isn’t necessarily a foregone conclusion. Let’s see what happens.
BTW, I am interested in counterpoints… where the acquisition of an established app ended up improving the service for the users. Any thoughts?
Steve