The thing that has disappointed me about Evernote forever is their complete and total lack of Linux support. This is a product that has Palm Pre and Windows Mobile clients but for whatever reason has decided that developing a Linux client isn't worthwhile.
A recent Hacker News poll of OS used day-to-day, Linux finished second in frequency behind Mac OS: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=687267 . People who do dev/database/IT work frequently need snippets of text like IP addresses and passwords and API keys and this sort of tool would come in handy for us. But a lot of us run Linux as well. Even ignoring the nerd market, Linux is increasingly run by regular people on their netbooks.
I guess the reason I don't get this is that tech savvy folks seem like a great market to go after with your software, as they tend to be very influential in their social networks' decisions as well.
Apples and Oranges, I know, but I use and love Dropbox in large part because it works with 2 of my 3 computers. On the other hand, Evernote runs poorly on my mac and can only be accessed via the web on the others. I actually use dropbox now as I would evernote, by keeping .txt files in my dropbox.
Does this even matter in this context? It appears that Evernote provides all the platform specific software for free, the Android app is listed as free in the Market. The service is free no matter what platform you use, and the ability to "go premium" doesn't have a condition for platform either. There are many Linux users who pay for on-line services, like Evernote is. Flickr pro accounts would be one example, and there is no flickr provided uploader app (which are free on other platforms too) that runs on Linux.
The chance that Linux users would or would not pay for software have nothing to do with the lack of a native, supported client for a specific platform when all the other platforms are provided for free. The choice to build software you're going to distribute for free for your userbase should be based on the platforms the userbase is using, not if they would pay for something that you aren't going to charge for anyway.
As a Linux user I use evernote through the web interface primarily for web clipping, and it works quite well in that respect. For notes I need cloud-available I just write them in whatever and then put them either in toodledo or google docs/zoho.
I definitely agree there is no perfect one ring to rule them all solution. Not sure there is for any OS.
A recent Hacker News poll of OS used day-to-day, Linux finished second in frequency behind Mac OS: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=687267 . People who do dev/database/IT work frequently need snippets of text like IP addresses and passwords and API keys and this sort of tool would come in handy for us. But a lot of us run Linux as well. Even ignoring the nerd market, Linux is increasingly run by regular people on their netbooks.
I guess the reason I don't get this is that tech savvy folks seem like a great market to go after with your software, as they tend to be very influential in their social networks' decisions as well.
Apples and Oranges, I know, but I use and love Dropbox in large part because it works with 2 of my 3 computers. On the other hand, Evernote runs poorly on my mac and can only be accessed via the web on the others. I actually use dropbox now as I would evernote, by keeping .txt files in my dropbox.