▲ 421 ▼ It's Time to Ditch Evernote for One of These Alternatives (lifehacker.com) submitted 2 years ago by L4s@lemmy.world [M, B] to c/technology@lemmy.world 141 comments fedilink hide all child comments It's Time to Ditch Evernote for One of These Alternatives::undefined
[+] beckerist@lemmy.world 21 points 2 years ago (7 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 7 child comments replies: [–] flatplutosociety@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (3 children) Holy shit, $170 a year for pro? Who on Earth thinks it's worth that? SAAS is generally an infuriating model, but I definitely think I get $100 worth of use out of Office 365 over the course of a year. Evernote is just not that useful. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] test113@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (2 children) In other words, the market is nearly saturated now, and Evernote makes its money with business people and institutions who often adhere to the "don't change a working system" principle regarding their "tools." Most of them will just keep paying if the functions are needed and already integrated. It's a model most of these types of companies adopt sooner or later if they are for profit, and investors see the potential of this business as almost exhausted. It's: grow, establish, grip, and squeeze. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Thermal_shocked@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago And make it difficult to export the data for another system migration. permalink fedilink source parent [–] tigerjerusalem@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago Ah yes, the good ol' extortion system: "Nice data you have here, it would be a shame if something happened to it." permalink fedilink source parent [–] TangledHyphae@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago I mostly ditched them many years ago because of privacy concerns (or lack thereof.) Around when I stopped using Dropbox too (same reason.) permalink fedilink source parent [+] Unforeseen@sh.itjust.works 1 point 2 years ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] BlackPenguins@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago The app literally freezes for me now there is so much crap in it. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] flatplutosociety@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (3 children) Holy shit, $170 a year for pro? Who on Earth thinks it's worth that? SAAS is generally an infuriating model, but I definitely think I get $100 worth of use out of Office 365 over the course of a year. Evernote is just not that useful. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] test113@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (2 children) In other words, the market is nearly saturated now, and Evernote makes its money with business people and institutions who often adhere to the "don't change a working system" principle regarding their "tools." Most of them will just keep paying if the functions are needed and already integrated. It's a model most of these types of companies adopt sooner or later if they are for profit, and investors see the potential of this business as almost exhausted. It's: grow, establish, grip, and squeeze. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Thermal_shocked@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago And make it difficult to export the data for another system migration. permalink fedilink source parent [–] tigerjerusalem@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago Ah yes, the good ol' extortion system: "Nice data you have here, it would be a shame if something happened to it." permalink fedilink source parent
[–] test113@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (2 children) In other words, the market is nearly saturated now, and Evernote makes its money with business people and institutions who often adhere to the "don't change a working system" principle regarding their "tools." Most of them will just keep paying if the functions are needed and already integrated. It's a model most of these types of companies adopt sooner or later if they are for profit, and investors see the potential of this business as almost exhausted. It's: grow, establish, grip, and squeeze. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Thermal_shocked@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago And make it difficult to export the data for another system migration. permalink fedilink source parent [–] tigerjerusalem@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago Ah yes, the good ol' extortion system: "Nice data you have here, it would be a shame if something happened to it." permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Thermal_shocked@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago And make it difficult to export the data for another system migration. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] tigerjerusalem@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago Ah yes, the good ol' extortion system: "Nice data you have here, it would be a shame if something happened to it." permalink fedilink source parent
[–] TangledHyphae@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago I mostly ditched them many years ago because of privacy concerns (or lack thereof.) Around when I stopped using Dropbox too (same reason.) permalink fedilink source parent
[+] Unforeseen@sh.itjust.works 1 point 2 years ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] BlackPenguins@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago The app literally freezes for me now there is so much crap in it. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] BlackPenguins@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago The app literally freezes for me now there is so much crap in it. permalink fedilink source parent