On Thursday, July 11, 2013, Rhet Turnbull <
rtur...@gmail.com> wrote:
>Thanks Rich. Appreciate your thoughts on this. To number 1, I'd say "not
>yet".
"Not yet" is irrelevant. :-) It's not here *today* and so it is
not usable *today* to meet the needs of us and our customers
*today*; and this same consideration applies to point #2.
>To number 3, as an Enterprise user of Dropbox with over 750GB synched
>via their system that "just works", I'd happily take a beta from
>Dropbox over a beta, er, I mean shipping, iCloud product any day. I
>know synching files and structured data aren't remotely the same thing
>but I do trust Dropbox's ability to ship a working synch mechanism --
>I already trust them with a tremendous amount of my data and have
>never been let down.
As a Dropbox customer, I am likewise satisfied with their
service. However, as the developers of a product that thousands
of people depend on, I need to set aside my personal
satisfaction and look objectively at the risks and
responsibilities involved, and as such choose to avoid deploying
a product release against something clearly labelled as "beta".
(And in fact, per my previous points #1 and #2, it's not even possible.)
>In the mean time, I'm quite happy to pay for my annual Evernote premium
>account because it "just works".
It's great that you're happy with Evernote; for my own part I
have no stake in how well it works, since I am not a customer of
theirs. :-)