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Automattic make money from Simperium and they provide Simplenote as a freebie to showcase the technology I guess.

• PhantomGremlin 11y ago
  That is very helpful. Now their business model makes sense. I wonder why they don't even mention Simperium on their home page? It's not even mentioned under Help. It's a secret? They even have a a perfect opportunity to mention it. E.g. in Simplenote Help they say: Q: How does syncing work? A: All notes are synced between your device ... they automatically and wirelessly show up in the other locations I guess they want us to hypothesize that magical "Data Fairies" do this syncing?
  • coldtea 11y ago
    >I guess they want us to hypothesize that magical "Data Fairies" do this syncing? No, they hypothetize that the average user wants a high level description, not to read about servers, incremental sync protocols, etc.
    • PhantomGremlin 11y ago
      They could have added this sentence, more or less: The secret sauce underlying this syncing is Simperium, a service for developers to move data everywhere it's needed, instantly and automatically One extra sentence would have overwhelmed the average user? Bah.
      • coldtea 11y ago
        That doesn't provide any more information to the average user -- which I thought was what was being asked for here. What's "Simperium"? Just a name they don't know to them.