...at their website bendingspoons.com, if you can stomach the inevitable gaslighting about company culture (“The secret sauce: our Spooners”), bragging about AI capabilities (“20 billion predictions made by our AI each day”) and all the other white- and greenwashing you're likely to expect.

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...growth-hungry big tech AI company that takes our data out of our control, hijacks our workflows, and locks us into their business models, always puts shareholder value above the benefit of users, and can ultimately turn against us at any time.

I encourage everyone to take a look...

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But above all: Bending Spoons have started the transition of Evernote to an AI company. Millions of daily users worldwide are now sharing their most personal and business-sensitive information with a greedy data octopus. Sounds familiar? Exactly. Bendings Spoons is just another global ...

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...or annual price of the app is still in proportion to its benefits.

An also growing number of users are annoyed by the hasty implementation of AI and other functions, where those responsible at Evernote appear to have spoon-fed themselves a little more than they could chew.

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...former business models were converted to a subscription basis, and other unpleasant things like that were done.

Just like in the case of Evernote. Shareholder first, user second now seems to be the overarching maxim. More and more Evernote users are wondering whether the increased monthly ...

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In addition to Evernote, the acquisitions included companies like FiLMiC, MeetUp, Hopin (StreamYard), Isuu, WeTransfer and Brightcove. In most cases, large parts (or all) of the acquired companies' original workforces were laid off, headquarters were relocated to Italy, costs were cut, ...

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..."Immuni" turned out to be a flop and was decommissioned at the end of 2022. But the government contract still proved to be quite lucrative for Bending Spoons. Thanks to the money from it, the company went on a shopping spree with a focus on big data and apps with large user bases.

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...company since late 2022, “Bending Spoons” (you know, haha, the psychic kid in “Matrix”).

Bending Spoons earned its first real money since 2020 through a government contract when it was selected to design and develop Italy's official COVID-19 tracking app “Immuni”. Like so many COVID apps, ...

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