Aquaminds NoteTaker 4 is in beta

Posted by satis
Jul 5, 2018 at 11:28 PM

Jeffery Smith wrote:
> Circus Ponies closed with some barbs thrown at Microsoft and, perhaps,
>Google.

I remember Jayson Adams posting his closing notice with a quasi-maybe joke linking to http://www.circusponies.xyz—and the .xyz domain is owned by Google: “After 13 years in business, Circus Ponies has gone to that great Alphabet company in the sky.”

Most people thought it was a sly reference to Jayson’s new employment at Google; after all, spendy acqui-hires are not unknown for Google, which bought then closed Bebop and hired VMware co-founder Diane Greene to run Google Cloud.

Adams later told TheMacObserver: “neither http://www.circusponies.com nor http://www.circusponies.xyz says anything about Alphabet owning us. I mostly just thought it would be funny for Circus Ponies to be the “C” in Alphabet. I am flattered that people would think that Circus Ponies was on par with Google and all the other multibillion sub-corporations Alphabet owns.”

... but if you check LinkedIn today you’ll see that he *is* employed by Google, as a software engineer:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaysonadams/

So perhaps it wasn’t an acqui-hire but Adams’s closing shop to take a regular (large) paycheck. And the Notebook code is mouldering.

In his goodbye note Adams did take a shot at OneNote for being what he considered a poor clone of Notebook, but honestly how much and for how long can one own or take responsibility for a notebook/tabs app metaphor?