[Grombobulous]

I will add to my original reply, if I drink their company kool aid on their company website they pretty specifically list out a number of improvements they’ve made to their product portfolio.

They have claims like making Evernote sync faster, fixing stuck transfers on WeTransfer, offering a free organizer EventBrite account for the first time since 2005. These seem like pretty tangible claims.

Perhaps they are trying to combat this exact negative image that they’re just there to suck out value.

Maybe they’re lying about their accomplishments, I really don’t know. I don’t use any of their products.

[rpdillon]

Talking to real users tells a different story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48847994

[Grombobulous]

Sure, one user’s anecdote. You can find negative reviews for any product.

Evernote on iOS currently has a 4.4 star rating.

For comparison, the Obsidian iOS app has a 4.5 star rating.

[rpdillon]

Yep, I ended up looking into this quite a bit more, and now agree with you. Evernote ratings were historically lower before the Bending Spoons acquisition. There are shady things you can do with ratings like ask whether they like they app before redirecting them to the rate it, it does seem like I was over-indexing on some anecdotes (I also worked with some ex-Evernoters, so I was coming in a bit biased). Thanks for pointing out the trend!