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I used to be a paid user but then quit after their iPhone app crashed each time I wrote a note. They took forever to update to iOS5 and that seemed to cause their issues. In that period of time I found Orchestra and haven't seen a need for Evernote for me personally.

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Note that this isn't directed at you personally, but rather towards the instant gratification culture at large:

I'm sorry, but "They took forever to update to iOS5"????

A quick google search shows that iOS5 was released on October 11th 2011. That makes it less than two months ago. In what world/dimension is 58 days "forever"?

Don't get me wrong, if you paying for a service, it should work, full stop, but complaining and saying that two months is forever trivializes your (valid) complaints.

Well not only was I a paying customer, but when Apple releases a developer beta and documentation ahead of the public release for companies that have paying customers to please, and Evernote doesn't do it, that's a disappointment. You're right, we expect too much from people in general, but I don't think this was the case. I think this was just a bad decision by their management.

It's very valid complaint that it should have at least been working under iOS5 even if it didn't take advantage of all the features. Lone developers had access to the iOS5 betas for months. Evernote is one of the flagship programs for OSX and iOS. They should have had access to the beta at least that long and possibly more. In addition to the likely access to Apple resources.

The expectation in the iOS world is that developers work on updating their apps during the developer beta, and submit their updated apps shortly before release when Apple says to (October 5th in this case), and then Apple releases them to the store on Day 1.

In that context, 58 days is 57 days more than a lot of the competition.

Given THAT, it sure does look like Evernote released iOS 5 updates on Oct 4th, so this whole point is moot:

http://blog.evernote.com/2011/10/04/evernote-for-ios-update-...

You're right, they did try. But unfortunately, it didn't work for me. I expected more from the "Number One Company in 2011"

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