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Cost of Evernote almost as much as Netflix?
abdu replied to Easterjeff's topic in Evernote General Discussions
Comparing the price of a service to Netflix's is not fair. Netflix has about 240 million paid members in the world. Any company with such scale can lower its prices. -
Any Evernote clones? Cheaper ones and simple
abdu replied to abdu's topic in Evernote General Discussions
The other big issue is that in the dark mode, which is important for me, I can't read the text because the text stays in black. There's hardy any contrast between the text and the background color. I am also skeptical about free software that depends on donations. I am making these points for the benefit of others who might want to check Joplin out. -
If you want to pay, go ahead and pay. Good for you and for the company. If the company is offering a free plan and the company thinks it's right and people are making use of it, you shouldn't have an issue with it. The company is offering choices and people are choosing. You seem to have a gripe that you're paying and others are not. You get what you pay for. You get more because you pay.
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Any Evernote clones? Cheaper ones and simple
abdu replied to abdu's topic in Evernote General Discussions
My first step with Joblin is ti import my enex files. When I found out that I had to do it one file at a time, that turned me off right there. -
Any Evernote clones? Cheaper ones and simple
abdu replied to abdu's topic in Evernote General Discussions
They are supporting imports from many software. So maybe they are implementing frequent changes. Updating a single import location, their servers, is a lot easier and faster than upgrading all the client software for all their users just for import changes. Plus it keeps the client app smaller in size. -
I am not sure what you're proposing. Remove the free plan and put instead a free trial? Why? The new 1/50 limit will purge many users in upcoming weeks. Freeing storage and resource. Some of us get a free trial to kick the tires then get distracted or we weren't that interested initially. We're not actively evaluating the software to make a purchase decision. For example, I may come to EN today to check out the software and start a trial, if they had one, and I am also checking other notes software and this is taking some time, maybe weeks and come back to EN and find out the trial expired, guess what will happen? I am going to concentrate on the apps that have free options and take my time with them. EN has lost me as a potential customer. Unless I contact EN and ask for a trial extension. I don't think many people do this. People are lazy.
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Users like free options. Me included. I was using a weather service to get historical weather data using their free plan. The first next paid option is $35/month. I am not going to pay that for using the service a bit. We also like to test products for a long time to make sure it works. Sometimes we get busy and forget to test the product and when we have time or remember, the trial has expired and we're stuck with having to pay. The free plan is already pretty limited. They can purge inactive users. The ones who seems to have moved to another company but kept their Evernote account, just in case and it's free anyway.
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I have never ever seen "You're using outdated software" red flash . I am using the latest v10.x and always update when there's a new version. It's not outdated. You must be confused with users using the legacy version. What's the relationship between 'outdated' software and changes in plans and feature? Outdated software does not indicate change in plans. Yes they are forcing users to upgrade if they don't notify clearly to users that what they used to be able to do won't work anymore. I am not talking about their business decision and why they did it. They know that without warning users about the change, some users will have to pay so they can add notes. They're not going to have enough time to do research for a new app, migrate and be able to add notes in the new app in a very short time. I paid for a month so that I can give myself time to research other alternatives and make a decision to move or stay. I am certainly not happy for not being able to add notes suddenly. I also didn't get emails about their plan to change their offerings. All I have been seeing is the discounts and 'last chance' which showed for a very long time causing its lack of effectiveness. My whole reply was about their lack of giving users enough notice. You can stop talking about why they changed their plans. We already know why and how good it is for them.