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Re:Evernote cuts 47 employees and shuts down 3 offices by wpietri on Tuesday September 29, 2015 @10:35PM (#10301373)
Personally, I don't want them to make anything noteworthy. I want them to make something subtle, unobtrusive, and as reliable as gravity. I've been using them 3 or 4 years now and as far as I'm concerned, they're my favorite vendor.

Google and Amazon keep screwing with things because they have a complicated global-dominance ecosystem that they're trying to build. I don't trust them with my files. But Dropbox keeps doing what they're doing with only modest, incremental improvements (that gradually add up). As long as they keep things solid, I'll keep using and recommending them.

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Re:Evernote cuts 47 employees and shuts down 3 offices by sweetbacon on Wednesday September 30, 2015 @02:41AM (#10302181)
I hear ya. But how much $$ have they made from us to keep the servers running? Sometimes it feels like my data could vanish at any time... I've started looking into ownCloud and the like lately as I'm just getting tired of offloading critical storage to something that may prove transient.
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Re:Evernote cuts 47 employees and shuts down 3 offices by wpietri on Wednesday September 30, 2015 @11:48PM (#10309107)
I don't know about other people, but I'm paying them $100/year for disk space that costs them under $15. Which is fine by me; I'm paying them for the seamless sync and the reliability.
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