Its acquirer (Bending Spoons) has taken over operations. They’ve also hiked subscriptions prices and told customers they intend to use new revenues to pay for new features. How they intend to do that without any staff is something I would like to know about.

If you’re still using Evernote, probably a good time to stop.

  • Holyginz@lemmy.worldEnglish
    89·
    1 year ago

    So basically, they are following enshitification same as many companies have been doing.

    • *dust.sys@lemmy.worldEnglish
      42·
      1 year ago

      Soon to be purchased by:

      A) Meta

      B) Microsoft

      C) Alphabet

      D) Some venture capital firm nobody who uses a computer daily has ever heard of

      Place your bets now people!

      • PantsOnHead@lemmy.worldEnglish
        26·
        1 year ago

        How many people had heard of Bending Spoons before they bought Evernote? They’re a software company but I’d never heard of any of their apps before, either.

        • bighi@lemmy.worldEnglish
          36·
          1 year ago

          I heard of Bending Spoons because I read an article about an unknown company buying mobile apps, raising prices to insane values, and milking existing customers. Then using that profit to buy another app and repeat.

          Than I forgot about them until they bought Evernote.

        • Bezerker03@lemmy.bezzie.worldEnglish
          10·
          1 year ago

          I only heard of them because I wanted to move to Italy and they were hiring and relocating DevOps engineers.

          I didn’t apply but that was first time I heard of them like 2 years ago.

            • Bezerker03@lemmy.bezzie.worldEnglish
              3·
              1 year ago

              That sounds familiar. I remember being impressed by then because Italy is not known for its tech sector (my brother in law here just learned about docker etc for example even though he’s a system admin) and they seemed pretty current on tech.

      • zerbey@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        1 year ago

        All that lovely text based data on there, I’m sure some companies are salivating at the idea.

        Jokes on them, even when I had an account I encrypted all my notes before putting them there. I do the same on Google Keep.

      • bighi@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        It was already acquired recently (less than a year ago) by a shady Italian company.

      • Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        Why would MS be intereted in Evernote? I guess they could incorporate something into OneNote, but what would that be? Are there any technologies worth buying in Evernote?

    • wile_e8@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      1 year ago

      I feel like they were some of the leaders - they’ve been making their product worse while charging more to use it for years

    • bittabet@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      Higher interest rates mean every company has to be profitable ASAP or they’re deader than bed bath and beyond. Gonna keep getting uglier