Re:Evernote cuts 47 employees and shuts down 3 offices
by kitsunesoba on Tuesday September 29, 2015 @06:00PM
(#10300064)
I think that a single-purpose app or service can survive in a world full of multi-featured competitors, but it needs to be insanely good at what it does in order to do so. Evernote is not insanely good at notetaking, and therein lies the problem.
[ Parent
| on HN ]
Re:Evernote cuts 47 employees and shuts down 3 offices
by edanm on Tuesday September 29, 2015 @06:05PM
(#10300107)
Agreed, but it is insanely better than anything else I've ever tried.
(I haven't tried that many things, but really I don't know of any decent competitor that runs well on multiple platforms, and does the basic things I need - which is text notes, other file types, and ability to tag and put into a notebook. And on a native app).
Re:Evernote cuts 47 employees and shuts down 3 offices
by volaski on Tuesday September 29, 2015 @11:11PM
(#10301488)
Your thesis is correct (single purpose app can survive in a world full of multi-featured competitors by being insanely good at one thing). But I disagree with your interpretation. Evernote is THE multi-featured competitor in notetaking arena. It does too many things, each of them in mediocre manner. Then comes all the "single-purpose apps that are insanely good at one thing only" which disrupt Evernote. Think of Instapaper (Saving webpages), Simplenote (Text syncing), All kinds of TODO apps, they all are good at one thing and do it well. That's why Evernote is not doing well.