On 1 November 2013 12:08, Roger Clarke <[email protected]> wrote:
> But that doesn't appear to be a 'core promise': > "[Evernote] ... reserve the right to establish limits to ... your > continued ability to access ... your Content and other data, and > impose other limitations at any time, with or without notice". > Evernote would be crazy to guarantee the continuation of their service to anyone in perpetuity: technology changes, new scams are invented, and so on. Evernote allows a large monthly upload levels, I guess based on the assumption that people won't hit the limit much and simple pricing sells better. If technology or usage changes means that people were hitting the storage limit or hammering their servers they would have to rethink the service offer. Expecting absolutes is a crazy life strategy - a successful relationship with reality is based on balancing benefits, costs and risks. The primary driver for continuation of the Evernote service is not a legal guarantee, it is that they want to retain and grow a large base of satisfied customers. Their product is essentially accessible storage "guearanteed" by a sustainable business model. They do have some nice add on features, eg, the ability to convert scanned handwriting to searchable text with reasonable accuracy, but easy-to-use low cost storage is their core business. AFAIK they don't use your data to profile for advertising (except of free accounts) so they don't have the incentive to modify their product to suit third party interests. A more relevant question would be whether my daughter is better served by another solution. There are costs and risks associated with cloud storage, but are they greater or less than trying to do it yourself? Plenty of personally-owned storage systems fail catastrophically, even expensive ones run by people with ICT skills. She's a savvy young woman but she doesn't know a lot about backup technologies, neither should she. Annual subscription to Evernote costs less that buying a 1Tb drive and would be way more reliable, has better features and is easily accessible across locations and platforms. - Jim _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
