<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rurp</author><text>&amp;gt; Their relative utilitarian take on the matter is what makes them so unique and powerful in the market.&lt;p&gt;Man this was not my experience at all. Granted I dropped Evernote quite a while ago, but for years they kept adding a kitchen sink of features that I didn&amp;#x27;t care about, while regressing at the basics like syncing and merging text notes across multiple devices.&lt;p&gt;They were maybe first company I experienced that blew up a really solid app I liked after raising a truck load of VC money and trying to take over the world.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bayindirh</author><text>Actually, their experience is pretty pleasant and the product works very well after they have rebuilt their apps.&lt;p&gt;They don’t need to be jealous. Their relative utilitarian take on the matter is what makes them so unique and powerful in the market.&lt;p&gt;Yes, I love markdown, and Evernote just provides a slightly more powerful, WYSIWYG version of it. I neither want “everything and the kitchen sink” vision of Notion, and desktop centric view of Obsidian.&lt;p&gt;Ulysses and Bear are Apple first systems, and while I use Apple mobile devices, my ecosystem is much more varied, and Evernote accommodates all, with feature parity.&lt;p&gt;They are good and understated. Hope that I won’t need to move out after that acquisition.</text></item><item><author>awill</author><text>They must be incredibly jealous of all the successful note taking apps (Notion, Ulysses, Bear, Craft). Evernote were first, and blew it. No other way to describe it.&lt;p&gt;I dumped Evernote when they restricted their free accounts to 2 devices. Ironically I&amp;#x27;m now paying for Ulysses, money I might have give to Evernote had they not been so awful to early adopters.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Evernote to be acquired by Bending Spoons</title><url>https://evernote.com/blog/evernote-next-move-joining-bending-spoons/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>throwaway675309</author><text>A &amp;quot;Relative utilitarian take&amp;quot; is not how it would describe a product that tried to incorporate an entire chat app into it.&lt;p&gt;They had a relatively good product around v5X series and I left because they just started to fragment and add more and more non-notetaking related things at the expense of the entire product stability and core functionality.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bayindirh</author><text>Actually, their experience is pretty pleasant and the product works very well after they have rebuilt their apps.&lt;p&gt;They don’t need to be jealous. Their relative utilitarian take on the matter is what makes them so unique and powerful in the market.&lt;p&gt;Yes, I love markdown, and Evernote just provides a slightly more powerful, WYSIWYG version of it. I neither want “everything and the kitchen sink” vision of Notion, and desktop centric view of Obsidian.&lt;p&gt;Ulysses and Bear are Apple first systems, and while I use Apple mobile devices, my ecosystem is much more varied, and Evernote accommodates all, with feature parity.&lt;p&gt;They are good and understated. Hope that I won’t need to move out after that acquisition.</text></item><item><author>awill</author><text>They must be incredibly jealous of all the successful note taking apps (Notion, Ulysses, Bear, Craft). Evernote were first, and blew it. No other way to describe it.&lt;p&gt;I dumped Evernote when they restricted their free accounts to 2 devices. Ironically I&amp;#x27;m now paying for Ulysses, money I might have give to Evernote had they not been so awful to early adopters.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Evernote to be acquired by Bending Spoons</title><url>https://evernote.com/blog/evernote-next-move-joining-bending-spoons/</url></story>