Comments on: Why is Evernote asking to be paid bad? http://blog.michaeldoornbos.com/2009/03/11/why-is-evernote-asking-to-be-paid-bad/ Just your average evil genius Fri, 05 Feb 2010 07:19:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0-alpha By: JosephRooks http://blog.michaeldoornbos.com/2009/03/11/why-is-evernote-asking-to-be-paid-bad/comment-page-1/#comment-339 JosephRooks Sun, 28 Jun 2009 21:18:45 +0000 http://blog.michaeldoornbos.com/?p=384#comment-339 Glad to find someone who agrees with me. I can't believe how entitled people feel to things they contribute nothing to and get for free. I'm not a premium user as of now, although I will consider paying for it as my usage increases. For now, I'm fine with such a tiny unobtrusive ad in a space that wasn't being used for anything anyway. Glad to find someone who agrees with me. I can't believe how entitled people feel to things they contribute nothing to and get for free. I'm not a premium user as of now, although I will consider paying for it as my usage increases. For now, I'm fine with such a tiny unobtrusive ad in a space that wasn't being used for anything anyway.

]]> By: Jonathan http://blog.michaeldoornbos.com/2009/03/11/why-is-evernote-asking-to-be-paid-bad/comment-page-1/#comment-292 Jonathan Fri, 20 Mar 2009 03:15:21 +0000 http://blog.michaeldoornbos.com/?p=384#comment-292 Also, for what it's worth, and not to sound too paranoid, the executive appointed by Evernote as Vice President of Product Development in 2006 is Dmitry Stavisky. He previously worked on enterprise-class distributed systems, software development tools, decision support and data mining [yes DATA MINING] at various technology companies. This is a bit concerning to me. See Evernote's own press release here: http://evernote.com/about/corp/news/pr/2006-09-13.php Also, for what it’s worth, and not to sound too paranoid, the executive appointed by Evernote as Vice President of Product Development in 2006 is Dmitry Stavisky. He previously worked on enterprise-class distributed systems, software development tools, decision support and data mining [yes DATA MINING] at various technology companies. This is a bit concerning to me. See Evernote’s own press release here: http://evernote.com/about/corp/news/pr/2006-09-13.php

]]> By: Jonathan http://blog.michaeldoornbos.com/2009/03/11/why-is-evernote-asking-to-be-paid-bad/comment-page-1/#comment-291 Jonathan Fri, 20 Mar 2009 03:04:46 +0000 http://blog.michaeldoornbos.com/?p=384#comment-291 Aside from the grumbling about the ad space on the free addition (I was ready to upgrade to the premium addition), I am moving away from Evernote as a result of a more serious concern. Their own security terms indicate that they cannot guarantee that Google crawlers and similar services will NOT be able to gather information about notes stored on the Evernote servers. To me, this is a serious problem, as I intended to use the Evernote services to store time entries and notes on client matters, which could contain confidential information. In this case, going with something that stores information locally (such as DevonThink), rather than in an unprotected "cloud" is more secure. All depends on whether you're using Evernote to store your grocery list or your latest invention information . . . Aside from the grumbling about the ad space on the free addition (I was ready to upgrade to the premium addition), I am moving away from Evernote as a result of a more serious concern. Their own security terms indicate that they cannot guarantee that Google crawlers and similar services will NOT be able to gather information about notes stored on the Evernote servers. To me, this is a serious problem, as I intended to use the Evernote services to store time entries and notes on client matters, which could contain confidential information. In this case, going with something that stores information locally (such as DevonThink), rather than in an unprotected “cloud” is more secure. All depends on whether you’re using Evernote to store your grocery list or your latest invention information . . .

]]> By: EntitlementRUs http://blog.michaeldoornbos.com/2009/03/11/why-is-evernote-asking-to-be-paid-bad/comment-page-1/#comment-282 EntitlementRUs Thu, 12 Mar 2009 00:10:52 +0000 http://blog.michaeldoornbos.com/?p=384#comment-282 Premium costs less than a single McD's combo meal for a month's usage. Given the amount of additional productivity and usefulness it provides me, I think it's an amazing bargain. I've seen all the grousing on the web, and I really can't understand how people can complain about the Evernote folks having the gall to charge to use the application they spend scarce resources to create. Or splash some ads on your screen in an attempt to keep a free version. Premium costs less than a single McD’s combo meal for a month’s usage. Given the amount of additional productivity and usefulness it provides me, I think it’s an amazing bargain. I’ve seen all the grousing on the web, and I really can’t understand how people can complain about the Evernote folks having the gall to charge to use the application they spend scarce resources to create. Or splash some ads on your screen in an attempt to keep a free version.

]]> By: h1ro http://blog.michaeldoornbos.com/2009/03/11/why-is-evernote-asking-to-be-paid-bad/comment-page-1/#comment-281 h1ro Wed, 11 Mar 2009 14:30:58 +0000 http://blog.michaeldoornbos.com/?p=384#comment-281 to up sell me to the premium model. and continue to make the premium model more attractive rather than making the free version less attractive to up sell me to the premium model. and continue to make the premium model more attractive rather than making the free version less attractive

]]> By: mike http://blog.michaeldoornbos.com/2009/03/11/why-is-evernote-asking-to-be-paid-bad/comment-page-1/#comment-280 mike Wed, 11 Mar 2009 14:28:01 +0000 http://blog.michaeldoornbos.com/?p=384#comment-280 So you want to continue to get something for nothing? What's in it for them? So you want to continue to get something for nothing? What’s in it for them?

]]> By: h1ro http://blog.michaeldoornbos.com/2009/03/11/why-is-evernote-asking-to-be-paid-bad/comment-page-1/#comment-279 h1ro Wed, 11 Mar 2009 14:26:22 +0000 http://blog.michaeldoornbos.com/?p=384#comment-279 the (minor) uproar (grrr) is because this adware update changes the value proposition of the product. evernote is no longer a freemium product - it's adware with an upgrade option. and on the mac version of the software there is only an xml export option so no easy migration of data out of their system. so the roach motel model there. happily on the pc version there is a plain text output - gosh me saying happily and pc in the same sentence, who would have thought. i signed up for a freemium model with iphone integration. i leave with having to futz around to get my data out of their system as i in no way want adverts on my screen and i don't store over the free file size limit as i mainly work in just text files. shame, it was a nice product. the (minor) uproar (grrr) is because this adware update changes the value proposition of the product. evernote is no longer a freemium product – it’s adware with an upgrade option.

and on the mac version of the software there is only an xml export option so no easy migration of data out of their system. so the roach motel model there.

happily on the pc version there is a plain text output – gosh me saying happily and pc in the same sentence, who would have thought.

i signed up for a freemium model with iphone integration. i leave with having to futz around to get my data out of their system as i in no way want adverts on my screen and i don’t store over the free file size limit as i mainly work in just text files.

shame, it was a nice product.

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