Evernote in trouble?

Posted by 22111
Sep 19, 2018 at 03:12 PM

Mr. Korm’s citation: “Together, we have built a product that serves over 225 million people around the world who trust us with more than 9 billion notes containing their most important thoughts, ideas, and inspirations.”

Same EN CEO in the very lines before that: “Together, we have built a product that serves over 225 million people around the world who trust us with more than 9 billion notes containing their most important thoughts, ideas, and inspirations.”

Dissecting the blah-blah, 9 bill / 225 mill = 40 “their most important thoughts, ideas, and inspirations” per capita.

Assuming 100 mill dormant accounts - once tried, or several times even, then let alone, between 0 and 40 “most important thoughts, ideas, and inspirations”, deleted (0) or left there since not “important” anymore, that’d make around 2 bill “most important thoughts, ideas, and inspirations” from 9 bill, 7 bill / 125 mill = 56 “most important thoughts, ideas, and inspirations” per active user, paying or not.

Now that ridiculous qualification makes sense: The CEO’s trying to hound possible reasons why there’s so little stuff of theirs users bring into his mobile PIM, discarding any logic, then if it’s not EN which’d be a generic input box and repository-by-search-and-tagging-for-all-of-non-physical-things, which other tool would it be, by EN’s original claim? And they do NOT tout EN’s availability as a transient-only tool afaik, but then, that’s what I think: Some paying users use it to that effect, for initial input processing (OCR), and then they shove it into professional software (DevonThink?); others will certainly store some hundreds of items in EN indeed.

Cf. OneNote: There again, it’s an input processing device for many, incl. - as is EN, too, presumably - some group work (professional MS group software being VERY expensive), and then, (surviving) items probably get into some real software, the common paradigm of both EN and ON being to deny (even paying) customers depth of categorization: just imagine NTFS just 1-, 2- or at most 3-levelled.

EN just offers a pittance without payment, and with it it doesn’t offer persistent AND WORKABLE storage, just some info-entry tool, implying LOTS of problems later on in the IM processes, by way of more or less bumpy transpositions of all sorts - too labor-intensive, after all.

Years ago, I asked here for the possible reasons of their then 156 developers, i.e. for the possible tasks they could have been deployed on. No answer here, and indeed, even today I’d be asking myself how they’d even succeed in keeping busy 15.6 developers 8 hours a day; certainly no need for midnight pizze over their premises. (Don’t know of the quality of their OCR which, if done in-house, would certainly have cost some person-years, but for a very limited time only.)

Today on bits, similar problems but seen from the opposite end of the work flow: UR as a moderately good data repository but without mobile access, thus treating the customers the very same way EN does.

At least UR’s stable, whilst EN’s said (see the various forum links in this thread further up) to bristle with even more bugs than does FinalDraft, and that’s really and definitely a piece of utter crap.