I agree, of course. However, insinuating that such an announcement, and choice of cloud partnership, is dictated heavily by preferential pricing diminishes both

I agree, of course. However, insinuating that such an announcement, and choice of cloud partnership, is dictated heavily by preferential pricing diminishes both customer's decision making and provider's intrinsic abilities. It's the not so subtle cloud "ad hominem" these days. On your second point, per [0], Evernote is interested in Google's ML capabilities. [0] fortune.com/2016/09/13/evernote-google-cloud/