(To it's credit Google has been recently resistant, but maybe being ad supported and wealthy makes virtue easier. This produces Data Lock (see also: Data Lock search), an outcome that has sustained many a software empire. On the other hand, there's a terribly powerful temptation to never quite build export capabilities. I'm cautiously supportive of this model - it means good developers can get predictable income without having to constantly obsolete existing software. If customers don't keep paying, they lose access to their data. That's a tough development challenge, but it comes with a great business benefit. Evernote follows the new model of web service, desktop app, phone support, and synchronization.
On the Notes side I took a look today at Evernote. On the Task side we're waiting to see if either Apple decides to support Tasks (I guess their engineers are too young to have complicated lives), Google adds Tasks and iPhone sync, or OmniFocus supports import/export. In particular, what do we do with Tasks and Notes?
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