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Evernote Slashes 15 Percent of Its Workforce (techcrunch.com)
Evernote, one of the most popular productivity apps on the market, is struggling to stay on top of the charts. TechCrunch, after reporting two weeks that the company "lost several of its most senior executives," is reporting that Evernote's CEO Chris O'Neill on Tuesday laid off 54 people -- roughly 15 percent of the company's workforce. O'Neill said it is now focusing its efforts around specific functions, including product development and engineering. From the report: We've just been in touch with Evernote. It pointed us to a newly posted piece by O'Neill in which he outlines the company's strategy going forward, which includes to "operate with a more focused leadership team," to "operate more efficiently," and to "double down on product development -- both quality and velocity." As for its funding situation, an Evernote representative insists that things are far from dire. The company is not fundraising, says this person; further, we're told Evernote has $30 million on its balance sheet and will exit the year without burning cash. This comes after "a person who tipped TechCrunch off to the executive departments two weeks ago characterized Evernote as 'in a death spiral,' saying that user growth and active users have been flat for the last six years and that the company's enterprise product offering hasn't caught on."
Take a look at https://simplenote.com/ instead. It's free, multi-devices supported incl Linux and just does text (very well). Markdown is also baked in if you're after some formatting. I'd love them to have a donate or subscription option just to ensure they keep on keeping on. The text only nature of it all makes it sustain-ably cheap to run on cloud and free to users I guess!
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It clearly depends on the number of useless features that nobody asked for are being developed. Added to that are the side projects most of the developers spend all of their time one (as if they worked for Google).
How much do you want to bet that the people that were laid off were the majority of the "bread and butter" developers?
The basic note-taking functionality has gone backward. Harder to make notes, harder to find notes, harder to scroll through and read notes, harder to export notes.
A lot of other stuff that I don't care about has been added. Apparently a lot of people don't care about it.
You have a captive audience of millions with their data in your platform. Hard to screw that up, but Evernote did, and they continue to get worse.
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I see an OS X application and then an iPad application. It makes sense that they have different UIs since one is operated with a mouse, other with a finger.