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Not sure if something like this ever happened in the history of software. :)
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logseq is open source, but you gotta pay for (e2ee) sync. Joplin is open source and you can do e2ee with a joplin server or s3 backed. I didn't care for Obsidian. logseq for me.
Paying for sync is absolutely fine as long as the client is open source. Thanks for the logseq recommendation, it looks very good from the first sight! I only wish they had NeoVim plugin like Obsidian has.
> How they intend to do that without any staff Contractors from cheaper cost of living countries, I expect.
intend to do what? acquirer probably has no intention of keeping the app running. just reaping whoever subscribes as profit, and having no opex
AFAIK, Bending Spoons is a company that successfully launched a couple of mobile apps and they know how to make a living out of it. According to an engineer who works for them and who I know, it’s a very demanding and stressing environment to work in. Probably they simply plan to throw more work at their existing employees. The plan was to buy Evernote and make it profitable. It wouldn’t surprise me if they kill the…
Their modus operandi seems to be:
1) Buy successful mobile app.
2) Increase the prices to insane amounts.
3) Profit off of the people still using the overpriced app.
4) Use the profits to buy another mobile app.
I feel like Evernote is a prime example of the pains of trying to convert free users to paying users for the same features, something we see in many VC funded software from its era. Once you give something away, it's damn near impossible to take it back, even if you plead your case as honestly as Evernote did. Evernote was great. Honestly, it was worth paying for. But they gave away the farm too early, and folks feel…
For me, it's an example of a company building an app that did a thing well, but not a thing people would pay for. And then switching out the app for this monstrous platformy enterprisey catastrophe that I sure as hell never wanted, and being told to pay for it. Just an endless series of features that I never wanted.
At least, they used to be. I haven’t checked recently, but this was the case for many years. Don’t know if they’ve changed anything recently.
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He gave the Obsidian example, which is a great one, so no. Obsidian shows you can still do well as a noted app company if you are selling the right thing (sync).
But you can sync your Obsidian notes for free if you use free Dropbox or OneDrive accounts.
There's work arounds (for example I forgot the name, but one plugin allows you to setup onedrive to share just one folder via logging in on each device), but the syncing story wasn't great. Quite a bit of extra setup across all devices, more points of failure etc.
Hence the smart business model, of let us handle it for you for a small cost.
A company I worked for did the same thing. They got rid of basically all of the staff and just outsourced everything to cut costs. I'd assume that's the plan here.
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So much shit here against GDPR which is basically: 1. if you want your data removed, companies HAVE to remove your data 2. if you don't want your data stored, companies CANNOT store your data and then a bunch of if-when-then-else-must-cannot-time-dependent-legal-stuff
You conveniently forgot to define what really is "your data".