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YNAB moving to a subscription model
wraith808:
@wraith808 - not sure about the Evernote example though. The reports I've come across recently suggest that the company is in trouble (I can't remember where I saw the article but I think it suggested that they've wrongly focused on adding useless bells and whistles instead of improving the underlying product).
-dr_andus (January 02, 2016, 07:11 AM)
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If you come across where that was stated, I'd be interested in seeing the reasoning. All indications I've seen are that they're doing well... though they've introduced a middle ground in order to get a whole new class of consumers.
dr_andus:
If you come across where that was stated, I'd be interested in seeing the reasoning.
-wraith808 (January 02, 2016, 10:22 AM)
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It might have been this one: Evernote is in deep trouble - Business Insider
wraith808:
If you come across where that was stated, I'd be interested in seeing the reasoning.
-wraith808 (January 02, 2016, 10:22 AM)
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It might have been this one: Evernote is in deep trouble - Business Insider
-dr_andus (January 02, 2016, 12:12 PM)
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That looks like an indictment of the company practices as a whole. Not the conversion to a cloud based service. Especially with this line:
In 2012, the note-taking app Evernote became one of the first “Unicorn” startups, joining the exclusive club for private tech companies worth $1 billion or more.
That year, Evernote passed 30 million registered users, brought its total funding to $270 million, and seemed like a sure-fire candidate to hit the public market in the coming years.
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What I was talking about was the conversion. They're way past that phase. Everything now has to do with their business practices and policies.
It still has a large user base, and as most subscription-based software companies do, it could probably improve its cash flow by cutting back on some of its investments.
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Which is what I thought. I just didn't know about the bad spending and the shotgun approach to getting apps out there. I'd not even heard of most of them. And the ones I did hear of- Penultimate and Skitch- I quickly dumped.
tomos:
Oh, wait... Does this mean I can no longer buy a licence key for this one? It looks like I missed the YNAB 4 boat then :(
Edit: or is this one still a legit way of buying it?
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-dr_andus (January 02, 2016, 08:41 AM)
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^ any opinions on purchasing there?
Any opinions on where this any good for someone self-employed, or is it more aimed at those with a regular income?
wraith808:
It looks legit to me. In fact, if you'd not said anything and I went there, I wouldn't have thought a second about buying it.
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