Their attempt to strategically pivot away from being about remembering information is deeply flawed.
They update their app to a new design and for 3 months the app just crashed when I start it on my phone (I have a Google Pixel 3A which isn’t that non-standard).
This Sunday, the app didn’t save two notes I made, and now notes can’t be saved.
Sounds horrible—I’m happy that I mostly use textfiles, and sync them using whatever mechanism works best (currently, Git + iCloud, but that’s changed 6-8 times over the last few decades).
I find it interesting that you picked “mismanaged” as your root cause, as opposed to “incompetent” or just “failing”.
I don’t disagree, but “management problem” is an undifferentiated cause. You can say that everything that seems like a mistake from outside is a management problem. Calling it a QA problem would be more specific (though no more helpful in terms of actions that a bystander can take).
It’s amazing how mismanged Evernote is.
Their attempt to strategically pivot away from being about remembering information is deeply flawed.
They update their app to a new design and for 3 months the app just crashed when I start it on my phone (I have a Google Pixel 3A which isn’t that non-standard).
This Sunday, the app didn’t save two notes I made, and now notes can’t be saved.
Sounds horrible—I’m happy that I mostly use textfiles, and sync them using whatever mechanism works best (currently, Git + iCloud, but that’s changed 6-8 times over the last few decades).
I find it interesting that you picked “mismanaged” as your root cause, as opposed to “incompetent” or just “failing”.
Releasing a new version when it’s very buggy looks to me like a management problem.
I don’t disagree, but “management problem” is an undifferentiated cause. You can say that everything that seems like a mistake from outside is a management problem. Calling it a QA problem would be more specific (though no more helpful in terms of actions that a bystander can take).
I’ve had to leave Evernote over the new app, and am so sad about it.
6 months after writing this, the app can start on my phone but is still unable to create new notes.