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I was just thinking this about Evernote the other day. I really want to pay them. They make a great product that serves me very well. I do believe they deserve
by emanuer 16y ago
I was just thinking this about Evernote the other day. I really want to pay them. They make a great product that serves me very well. I do believe they deserve my money. The problem is, the payed plan would be a complete waste for me. I don't need it. The free thing fulfills my needs perfectly. If it would be a 30 days trial, I would be a happily paying customer by now.
The same thing is true for dropbox for me. After the first month I was actively looking for a "donate" button on their website. I love the product, it works perfect, I would pay for it without thinking a second, I just have no need for the paid plan.
I understand the free plans are for marketing purposes. In my case I had more than 10 different choices for a note taking application, or a online backups system. The factor that pushed me towards Evernote and Dropbox were the consistent great reviews. Free was the cherry on top, but not the reason why I choose those two apps.
- rmc 16y agoWhy not buy the non-free plan for a week, then cancel? Or email them. They might use PayPal, perhaps you could transfer money in there if you know the right account.
- emanuer 16y agoMost important reason: laziness I am not going out of my way to give them money. However I am perfectly willing to pay when they change their price structure. [For dropbox I found their prices per GB are almost double of cheaper competitors. They could charge much less per GB if they would get money from more customers]
- Groxx 16y agoVs Google's storage costs (Docs lets you store up to 1gb files of any kind), they're 8x more expensive (400gb for $100 vs 50gb). Granted, the service is very different, and Google is ever-so-slightly larger. It's still a big jump.
- Groxx 16y agoI'm not touching Evernote again until they get exporting features. It's a really impressive, useful service, but despite their repeated claims of supporting open formats they've provided utterly squat in the past few years I've watched them. Years. More than enough time to write exporters (not even .txt / .rtf!) if they value it at all.
- mortenjorck 16y agoSounds like a good freemium upsell to me.
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- Groxx 16y agoI might actually go for it if that were the case. It'd have to be damn-good exporting, however - quite frankly, I don't trust them with my data, especially given their lack of export progress + claims. The company as a whole doesn't seem too trustworthy. I want a panic button.
- frossie 16y agoI am very confused by this subthread. If you run the MacOS client, and you are a premium subscriber all your evernote data is locally available on your hard drive - it's unencrypted and easy to see and parse.
- emanuer 16y agoI absolutely agree. I tried to get the my data into other formats by creating a RSS feed for the non-critical information. But the RSS feed you get is a joke. I still like their service very much.
- shadowsun7 16y agoRE: Dropbox - just wait till you run out of space. I love their product, and I'm currently not paying. But trust me - when I finally run out of space (and I will!) I'll do it, no questions asked. They're giving me so much value already that I can't imagine living without them.
- dpcan 16y agoTrue - and the exact reason why I'm a paying customer. I got down to my last 200MB and then I became a paying customer. I didn't even think twice about it.
- sstrudeau 16y agoRe: wanting to pay but not needing the "pro" version -- I feel the same way about Jing. I use it almost every day and I think TechSmith deserves my money, but I really don't need any of the features of Jing Pro.