Amidst the roars and cheers of the EverNote aficionado's there are quite mumblings and groans from the Linux minority, who want a native client.
Yes, a web interface with a web clipped is available but it doesn't help when one is offline.
This is what's going to happen. I know it's going to happen because it's a predictable pattern, and it's happened before many times with other software systems. (Call me Nostradamus)
1. Evernote will continue to soar in popularity, not surprising - it's a good product after all it will go well past the 10 million mark by 2012
2. Realizing that there will *never* be a linux client, a lone hacker will build a modified e-mail client* that creates notes**
*Evernote, is in fact a modified / hacked e-mail client with added features. It is a great product because at it's foundation it's based on what made the Internet great in the first place - off-line pop email
** Each note is much like a draft e-mail note
3. The obvious place to link this "e-mail client" is into Google Mail where there is 7 Gig's or more space to store these "notes"
4. The client will probably be written in Java, but in any event, with the linux folks being what they are, the program will be open source and eventually there will be not only linux clients, but windows and OS X clients, with Android versions not far behind.
Just as EverNote reaches the point of "Global Ubiquity" the free open source client spreads like a virus across the world. It's spread - ironically fueled by the fact that EverNote is so successful. Posts on LifeHacker blog and legions of 20somethings googling for "Free Opensouce EverNote" will adopt the hacked e-mail client and probably be installed on Ubuntu as a standard feature linked up to their "Ubutnu One" pet project.
This is the inevitable path, what else could possibly happen?
If I was at the top levels of EverNote Corp. I would kill this weed before it takes root. I would create a linux client par excellence, lest the open source spreads like a virus.
Anyway, now sit back and watch my predictions unfold, exactly as I said they would.
Enjoy the show.
UPDATE: 2011 http://remus-software.org/ .... I told you this would happen