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Proton picks up Standard Notes to deepen its pro-privacy portfolio
(techcrunch.com)
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That article was far more clear than their own. "Joining Forces" as they called it, could mean almost anything. But "Acquiring" Standard Notes to add to their services actually explains what's happening.
If it follows the SimpleLogin acquisition as they implied, it'll still be a separately branded product that's added to a Proton Ultimate subscription. So that's cool.
Sounds like they plan to end up merging it all.
It's a bit murkier, SimpleLogin remains an independent product that you can now login to with a proton account. They also added some of SimpleLogin's features into Proton.
I wouldn't be surprised if they do a similar thing where you can login to standard notes itself with a Proton account but they also start integrating pieces of the app more closely into the Proton suite.