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by netmare 3912 days ago
Automattic make money from Simperium and they provide Simplenote as a freebie to showcase the technology I guess.
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PhantomGremlin 3912 days ago
That is very helpful. Now their business model makes sense.

I wonder why they don't even mention Simperium on their home page? It's not even mentioned under Help. It's a secret?

They even have a a perfect opportunity to mention it. E.g. in Simplenote Help they say:

   Q: How does syncing work?

   A: All notes are synced between your device
   ...
   they automatically and wirelessly show up
   in the other locations
I guess they want us to hypothesize that magical "Data Fairies" do this syncing?
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coldtea 3912 days ago
>I guess they want us to hypothesize that magical "Data Fairies" do this syncing?

No, they hypothetize that the average user wants a high level description, not to read about servers, incremental sync protocols, etc.

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PhantomGremlin 3912 days ago
They could have added this sentence, more or less:

   The secret sauce underlying this syncing is
   Simperium, a service for developers to move
   data everywhere it's needed, instantly and
   automatically
One extra sentence would have overwhelmed the average user? Bah.
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coldtea 3912 days ago
That doesn't provide any more information to the average user -- which I thought was what was being asked for here. What's "Simperium"? Just a name they don't know to them.
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