Re:The bar for success in our industry is too low
by tptacek on Wednesday September 02, 2009 @12:21PM
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If you don't make a profit, you're not successful. That does about sum it up.
You're the one that's extrapolating here.
Fried is indirectly criticical of the Evernote model, but he isn't writing it off. What he's saying --- straightforwardly --- is that Evernote isn't a business success, yet.
What he's very directly critical of is the lazy journalism that valorizes the Evernotes of the industry. Evernote may be successful one day. It may even be very likely that Evernote will be successful. Maybe very successful. But it hasn't happened yet.
You're the one that's extrapolating here.
Fried is indirectly criticical of the Evernote model, but he isn't writing it off. What he's saying --- straightforwardly --- is that Evernote isn't a business success, yet.
What he's very directly critical of is the lazy journalism that valorizes the Evernotes of the industry. Evernote may be successful one day. It may even be very likely that Evernote will be successful. Maybe very successful. But it hasn't happened yet.