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I wish they would ditch the business focus and return to plain old "remember everything". Who on earth needs features like "work chat"?
by fwn 11y ago
I wish they would ditch the business focus and return to plain old "remember everything".
Who on earth needs features like "work chat"?
- dasboth 11y agoCouldn't agree more. I remember when I first started using Evernote, the FAQs specifically said "you can't share your notes, that's not the point". Now it's all social and businessy, but I just want an easy and private way to organise my stuff!
- gherkin0 11y ago> Couldn't agree more. I remember when I first started using Evernote, the FAQs specifically said "you can't share your notes, that's not the point". Now it's all social and businessy, but I just want an easy and private way to organise my stuff! This[1] article makes the point that they realized they needed business users to make money, and they were trying to appeal to them. [1] http://www.businessinsider.com.au/evernote-the-first-dead-unicorn-2015-9 http://www.businessinsider.com.au/evernote-the-first-dead-un...
- adamb_ 11y agoSeconded. They pushed work chat pretty hard... Given what the CEO letter mentioned about product focus, I wonder if it's the employees that worked on that that are being let go
- rhino369 11y ago>Who on earth needs features like "work chat"? They want to create a network effect to justify their valuation. Otherwise it's just a competitor to OneNote, and why is that worth a billion dollars.
- tgb 11y agoHalf the comments here are "you can't just be a 'feature' or you'll get replaced by google/apple/MS" and the other half are "why are they trying to expand beyond the core feature?" Makes me glad I'm no CEO.