Monday, July 4, 2016

Evernote Basic - Freemium And Change In Business Model

Evernote is a fantastic way to capture notes - typed, drawn, picture, web URL.
The notes are stored in their cloud, and I currently access it on my  Macbook Pro, iPhone, iPad, and an Android tablet.

Evernote Basic plan is a freemium plan (basic features free, upgrade will cost money).
This is all free. But for only another 27 days. I first saw this on my Macbook Pro:



An Evernote blog also talk about this (it is closed and refers readers to its forum):




Evernote forum announcing the price change and opportunities for users to vent:




What will be the ramifications of Evernote changing its Freemium business model - from supporting lots (?) of devices to now only supporting two devices?


"Thumbs Down" from dottotech.




Will users economize and find ways to work around this? For example, on the Macbook Pro, use the web version instead of the Evernote app?


Macbook Pro App (don't use this because counts as a device)


Will users be turned off and switch to an alternative such as Microsoft One?