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For Evernote, restructuring its freemium product was long overdue—and urgently needed. Yet for Evernote users, this move felt like a slap in the face: not only were free-tier features weakened, but free users’ usage was severely restricted—and many bugs still plaguing the paid version remained unfixed. To be fair, the company had little choice but to raise prices. For years, Evernote’s exceptionally generous freemium model had spoiled users accustomed to using it for free—and hampered the company’s revenue growth. What the company should have done—while staying aligned with users—was gradually introduce usage-limiting incentives to its free tier over time, rather than abruptly shifting from a generous freemium offering to a relatively expensive paid service. Pricing changes are among the most impactful actions a company can take. Yet one of the largest—and most unpopular—changes in Evernote’s recent adjustments wasn’t its new pricing structure. Evernote’s main competitors—Microsoft’s OneNote and Apple’s Notes—lack Evernote’s feature richness, yet they offer significantly more functionality for free—making Evernote’s new pricing even less attractive. Under O’Neill’s leadership, Evernote’s next major change occurred several months after the pricing adjustment. At that time, the company announced it would migrate from its own proprietary data infrastructure to Google Cloud—a decision of no small significance. At the time, Evernote served 200 million users and stored approximately 3.5 million GB of data. It could have opted instead for Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Microsoft Azure. According to reports, the company chose Google as its cloud provider due to the potential applications of Google’s machine learning technologies. Though costly and labor-intensive, this migration may be viewed as another small step toward transforming Evernote into the company Stepan Pachikov envisioned years earlier. Long before this, rumors circulated that Evernote planned to develop voice recognition and translation capabilities to make information access easier. For Evernote, Google Cloud’s machine learning engines represented an ideal fit. Data security has long been a thorny issue for Evernote. In 2013, roughly 50 million user accounts were compromised due to a security breach. Evernote’s decision to migrate its data infrastructure to Google Cloud was therefore a prudent one—for a company handling such massive volumes of data and users. However, the company suffered another public relations scandal when TechCrunch reported that its new privacy policy permitted Evernote employees to read users’ private notes. "The latest update to our privacy policy allows certain Evernote employees to oversee machine learning technologies applied to account content."

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