@Printdevil Indeed, they were bought out by private equity (Bending Spoons) end of last year.

#BendingSpoons are well-known for the #enshittification of companies in their portfolio. Their playbook is buy company → screw the employees (massive layoffs) → screw the customers (higher prices for a worse service) → vampirically suck all the value out for shareholders.

#Bikepacking gave a pretty good analysis after BS bought #Komoot last year:
https://bikepacking.com/plog/when-we-get-komooted/

@martinsteiger
Always when I read the company's name #BendingSpoons I think of Uri Geller who tries to convince people it was some kind of magic energy of his mind while everybody knows it's just a cheap trick and you end up with two unusable, broken spoons.

So the name of the company leaves little room for surprises.

WeTransfer’s co-founder Nalden criticizes changes under Bending Spoons, citing opaque updates, mass layoffs, and backlash over plans to use user content for AI training. 🔍

His new service, Boomerang, allows file transfers without logins or ads, shaped by frustration with acquisition-driven product shifts. ⚖️

🔗 https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/28/why-wetransfer-co-founder-is-building-another-file-transfer-service/

#TechNews #Privacy #UserRights #DataProtection #DigitalRights #PlatformPower #BigTech #AI #WeTransfer #Boomerang #Nalden #BendingSpoons #AI

#Nalden, co-founder of #WeTransfer, is building #Boomerang, a #filetransfer service prioritising #simplicity and #userexperience. He criticises WeTransfer’s changes post-acquisition by #BendingSpoons, including unclear transfer link modifications, staff layoffs, and controversial AI model training. https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/28/why-wetransfer-co-founder-is-building-another-file-transfer-service/?eicker.news #tech #media #news

Why WeTransfer’s co-founder is building another file transfer service

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/28/why-wetransfer-co-founder-is-building-another-file-transfer-service/

@qwc@hachyderm.io @dagger@chaos.social

Ah cool. #wanderer kannte ich noch nicht. Muss ich mir unbedingt ansehen. Ich vermute aber, dass es da kaum Touren zu entdecken und sicher auch keine Funktion "ans GPS Gerät senden" gibt.

Allein die #Usability von #Komoot hat imho enorm gelitten:
Seit wann
a) werden einem bei gemachten Touren keine Untergrund Infos (Anteil an Singletrail etc.) mehr angezeigt?
b) kann man eine gemachte Tour nicht mehr ans Gerät senden/navigieren, ohne dass man daraus eine neue geplante Tour machen muss?
c) wird bei der Suche in der Liste der gefundenen Touren keine Vorschau in der Karte, sondern völlig uninformative Fotos angezeigt?

Komoot wird seit der Übernahme durch #BendingSpoons - Überraschung - schlechter statt besser.

🤷🤦🤡🤮🤮🤮

@bjoernsta @niklaskorz

#BendingSpoons are also buying #vimeo

Gibt es eigentlich eine gehostete Variante von #mobilizon? #fediverse (will raus aus dem #BendingSpoons Universum)

Woran man die #Enshittification von #Komoot auch noch erkennt: Seit der Übernahme durch #BendingSpoons werden Updates für die App in kürzeren Intervallen angeboten als für YT. Das will was heißen.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@ednl/115249909683238207

‪And there we have it: Vimeo now imposes a blanket age verification requirement in the whole of the UK+EU despite this not being necessary in the EU (unless <intricate specifics>).

#vimeo #bendingspoons

@StephanB @pasco11 I loved Komoot, but unfortunately it was taken over by #BendingSpoons so I'm looking for alternatives. #bikerouter looks promising, also https://cycle.travel

After Bending Spoons bought Evernote, you can safely mark 2022 as the product's date of death. They literally fired everyone who worked on it, killed the old non‑Electron app, raised prices to insane levels, and still pretend it's the same Evernote “we all knew” and even better.

Now they want $250/year just so I can keep my 5k+ notes accessible (the "Starter" plan doesn’t cut it). They even charge just to view your own notes. It’s absurd.

Recently they’ve also bought great products like Komoot, WeTransfer, and Issuu, and I bet they'll all face the same enshittification: mass layoffs of passionate teams and massive price hikes.

Evernote used to be a must‑have app - stable, powerful, and reliable (yes, not perfect).

Now it's a bloated ghost-app riding the AI hype while ignoring the basics that used to make it great.

Stay away from Evernote. Stay away from anything Bending Spoons touches. 
And if you want to feel what we've actually lost, watch Komoot’s farewell video - it's heartbreaking:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLJkK4Wn1HI

#bendingspoons #evernote #thoughts #ai #komoot #evernote #app #notetaking #electron #internet #subscriptions #komoot

Evernote is forcing a decision on me

As a creature of app habit, I’ve kept paying for Evernote even as the rates for my note-taking app of choice have increased considerably–mainly because the new management at that service has improved it tremendously. But now that Evernote’s corporate parent Bending Spoons has discontinued my $129.99/year Personal plan and presented me with a choice between a $99.99/year Starter plan that seems clearly inadequate and a $249.99/year Advanced plan that brings more than I need, I need to rethink that habit.

That 92% rate increase itself requires reconsideration, but it’s not the only thing. There’s the odds of a company on a venture-capital-fueled spending spree that somehow incluces buying AOL will see fit to jack up the annual rate again; I also have to assess whether Evernote’s bosses might make it harder to take my data out of the app that I’ve used since 2010.

But looking over such other note-taking app options as OneNote, Joplin, and Notion while comparing their features, I don’t see an obvious escape pod.

These are my priorities in this indecision-making process, in rough order of descending importance:

• Cross-platform support–macOS, Windows, Android, iOS–is not negotiable, which is why I didn’t mention Apple Notes above.
• I need any other app to import my Evernote archives no less than one notebook at a time; that seems to rule out Microsoft’s OneNote, even though I pay for it as part of my Microsoft 365 subscription.
• I need reliable synchronization, ideally the almost real-time sync that Evernote now does so well. That may be the thing I need to trade to shave all or part of $250 a year from my online-services budget.
• Yearly cost below this year’s $129.99.
• Offline support, because I know how well CES WiFi works.
• Voice transcription for recording interviews, which I’ve come to rely on over the past year.
• Text recognition from a photo of a business card, so I can look up the details of somebody I met without adding them to my contacts list.
• Robust export options so I don’t get stuck in another company’s silo.
• The option of encrypting at least some notes on an end-to-end basis.
• A long-term focus from the app’s developers–why I don’t consider Google Keep, since Google introducing that a week after killiing Google Reader still leaves me with trust issues beyond my trying to reduce the number of single points of failure in my digital life.

Looking over this and comparing it to the research I’ve done so far, I think this makes me look like a Joplin user. Unless the lag that open-source app cites–the most frequent sync interval it allows for the OneDrive cloud storage I already pay for is every five minutes–instead makes me look like somebody who should suck up the extra cost of Evernote, considering what a small fraction it is of my other operating costs. 

I wish this choice were clearer. I also wish that I didn’t have to figure this out at the peak cognitive-load period of my year.

#appleNotes #bendingSpoons #crossPlatform #digitalBudget #evernote #google #googleKeep #joplin #microsoft #noteTakingApps #notesApps #notion #onenote #vendorLockIn

Après Vimeo, WeTransfer, Evernote… Eventbrite racheté par Bending Spoons pour 500 millions de dollar
https://mac4ever.com/193476
#Mac4Ever #bendingspoons #eventbrite

Bending Spoons, a company that's served over a billion people with its portfolio, is largely unknown but just acquired Eventbrite! It's wild how many tech giants operate under the radar. What other massive companies do you think we're all using without realizing?
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/03/what-is-bending-spoons-everything-to-know-about-aols-acquirer/
#TechNews #MergersAndAcquisitions #BendingSpoons #Eventbrite #UnderTheRadar

Après Evernote, Vimeo, WeTransfer ou AOL, Bending Spoons se paye la billetterie Eventbrite http://dlvr.it/TPcFl8 #BendingSpoons #Eventbrite

L’azienda italiana #BendingSpoons ha detto che acquisirà la piattaforma per eventi #Eventbrite per 500 milioni di dollari Beh... è chiaramente ora di passare a #Mobilizon mobilizon.it

Mobilizon Italia - Mobilizon

L’azienda italiana #BendingSpoons ha detto che acquisirà la piattaforma per eventi #Eventbrite per 500 milioni di dollari

Beh... è chiaramente ora di passare a #Mobilizon
https://mobilizon.it

Oki doki, #BendingSpoons hat dann auch noch #Eventbrite gekauft…

https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/02/bending-spoons-agrees-to-buy-eventbrite-for-500m-to-revive-stalled-brand/

Diese Monopole die entstehen, sind schon klasse. Markt ist am regeln am tun.