AOL to be sold to Bending Spoons for $1.5B

Re:AOL to be sold to Bending Spoons for $1.5B by amiga386 on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @03:23PM (#45751739)

Simple. They get new staff whose job is to shove intrusive surveillance and advertising into the product and push out an update, they don't have to support or develop the product.

The company bought the product to bilk money out of its existing users. They throw the product in the bin once all the users have gone.

Sadly, some ants get infected with corydceps. Tragic for the ant, but the other ants get it the fuck away from their colony, because they don't want to be next.

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Re:AOL to be sold to Bending Spoons for $1.5B by mtgentry on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @04:07PM (#45752364)

As an Evernote user, Bending Spoons has been iterating fast over the past couple years to improve the product. It’s much better than it used to be.

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Re:AOL to be sold to Bending Spoons for $1.5B by sentientslug on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @07:26PM (#45754471)

What the value prop of continuing to use Evernote versus other newer solutions like Notion? Interested to hear from someone still using the product

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Re:AOL to be sold to Bending Spoons for $1.5B by mtgentry on Thursday October 30, 2025 @03:00AM (#45757135)

Notion is more than I need. 99% of the time I just need to write something down for later.

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Re:AOL to be sold to Bending Spoons for $1.5B by jimnotgym on Thursday October 30, 2025 @05:57AM (#45758160)

I have tried them all, and ended up with a fileofax rip off, and a box of index cards!

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