So in other words you are saying 'no big deal' as far as evernote is concern? But the question is will evernote do those things more conveniently than other tools? If you are an IT manager, would you official adopt evernote for use in your enterprise?
Another point with Evernote, right now, is that there is an awful lot of coincidental information coming out. There are a few books on the market, just released, that are the equivalent to Evernote for Dummies. Even your post, Maria, makes me think that Evernote is invading our subconscious minds, leaving you to think, "What a great post idea--Evernote!"
I'm impressed with their marketing ground game, if indeed that is what is happening. Evernote is definitely raising end-user awareness right now.
But it also does lead to phase two of the BYOD concept--I guess, BYOA, for applications. IT groups will have to deal with devices, but more attention has been put on the device rather that software that's built in and interacting with enterprise-official applications.
I'm not sure that all of this is actually a problem--although it adds to the possible security vulnerabilities.
This is one of the problems with cloud services - the vendor is capable of making wholesale changes at any given time. We've seen that recently with Google Apps - they are combining their Postini anti-spam product right into Google Apps. That means customers who use Postini but rely on some mail system other than Google Apps need to find another solution unless they want to access it from the Google Apps dashboard - that really makes no sense.
I realize that you are referring to APIs here, which also impacts users. But this is another example.
And there's also another thing to be wary of -- the company providing the API might decide to discontinue it at any time.
For example, Twitter has been changing the way third-party services are allowed to connect, possibly in an attempt to eliminate some potential business rivals.
For example, there used to be a bunch of third-party services that allowed you to manage who you're following -- see who hasn't Tweeted for a while, for example, and take them off your list. Most of those are now gone.
So be careful about creating a business model that depends on permanent free access to another company's API.
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