$500 million is something on the order of the annual opex budget of my entire division of ~800 people. Are you seriously proposing that an app like Evernote requires that kind of a nestegg to deliver on users best interest in addition to a subscription model? Better than "maybe we should charge $1 more a month" or similar? Color me dubious.
Huh? You're misunderstanding my point. It's not that a crowdsourced financing is required to achieve some outcome. I'm simply pointing out that it would have been a better option for all stakeholders than what just happened.
