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Re: reMarkable 2

#71

Post by wiseowise »

afandian wrote: post #38
YeBanKo wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why is it useless without cloud if you can still use USB?

They broke that feature. They’ve been quite responsive to my Zendesk ticket, and claim to be working on it. But I don’t know if they fixed it yet. For a number of versions at least it was impossible to use USB upload. Also, it was always advertised as “experimental”. They don’t officially support non-cloud use. Edit: To clarify that last comment, I mean non-cloud use for the advertised primary benefits. I.e. getting…

> They don’t officially support non-cloud use.

Stop spreading FUD, they literally have a page that lists what you can do without cloud.

https://support.remarkable.com/s/article/Using-reMarkable-wi...

Re: reMarkable 2

#72

Post by wiseowise »

darkteflon wrote: post #65
afandian wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They broke that feature. They’ve been quite responsive to my Zendesk ticket, and claim to be working on it. But I don’t know if they fixed it yet. For a number of versions at least it was impossible to use USB upload. Also, it was always advertised as “experimental”. They don’t officially support non-cloud use. Edit: To clarify that last comment, I mean non-cloud use for the advertised primary benefits. I.e. getting…

That’s absolutely insane. I’m exactly the kind of person that would be interested in the RM2 but every time it comes up on HN I learn something new that keeps me away. Strange business.

That’s absolutely insane because it’s a blatant lie.

https://support.remarkable.com/s/article/Using-reMarkable-wi...

Re: reMarkable 2

#74

Post by YeBanKo »

afandian wrote: post #70
darkteflon wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That’s absolutely insane. I’m exactly the kind of person that would be interested in the RM2 but every time it comes up on HN I learn something new that keeps me away. Strange business.

With this issue I think it’s just they’re in move fast break things mode still. Probably feeling the heat from the competition and focusing on competitive features. But as a user, my impression is that they don’t consider this feature to be existential enough to have a smoke test for. And I do.

Thanks for explaining. I definitely don’t want to have a “connected” or “cloud first” experience. If I wanted to get locked in with a cloud, I would probably to find bigger players, at least they are more likely to be around in few years.

Re: reMarkable 2

#75

Post by lhl »

kstrauser wrote: post #21
chatterhead wrote: post #2

Never going to buy subscription based hardware.

Beat me to it. That was a dealbreaker for me. I got a couple of Rocketbook notebooks for when I want something that really feels like paper, plus an iPad for the large-screen computing bits. Pity, because I love the idea of the Remarkable and would strongly consider it were it not for the subscription.

While the RM2 is probably the simplest/easiest to use, there are actually a lot of other eink tablet manufacturers - Boox, Supernote, Fujitsu Quaderno, and Quirklogic are probably the ones I'd look at. They have different tradeoffs on features, cost, size, etc but all can do roughly the same thing (allow paper-like notetaking, outdoor reading, etc).

Re: reMarkable 2

#76

Post by wiseowise »

knaik94 wrote: post #68
wiseowise wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Supposedly higher latency and worse experience when writing(also supposedly). I own Remarkable 2, and unless they can replicate same paper feeling, it won’t a replacement for Remarkable. But it is a nice eBook reader, yes.

The kindle will be using wacom emr which is more then adequate for most people. I never had a problem with the technology before and I don't think it will be practically worse. I can't imagine most people expect it to feel like writing on paper.

That’s one of the main selling points of Remarkable. It was never targeted at “most” people.

Re: reMarkable 2

#77

Post by YeBanKo »

wiseowise wrote: post #71
afandian wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They broke that feature. They’ve been quite responsive to my Zendesk ticket, and claim to be working on it. But I don’t know if they fixed it yet. For a number of versions at least it was impossible to use USB upload. Also, it was always advertised as “experimental”. They don’t officially support non-cloud use. Edit: To clarify that last comment, I mean non-cloud use for the advertised primary benefits. I.e. getting…

> They don’t officially support non-cloud use. Stop spreading FUD, they literally have a page that lists what you can do without cloud. https://support.remarkable.com/s/article/Using-reMarkable-wi...

> Google Drive, Dropbox, and OneDrive integration

These are cloud services.

> Handwriting conversion

> You need to be connected to Wi-Fi and logged in to your reMarkable account.

> Read on reMarkable

> Once you’ve logged into your account and sent content to your reMarkable paper tablet, you can review, annotate, and focus on the task you’re working on without any distractions.

Almost every use-case requires some sort of connectivity to a cloud. No mention of USB.

Re: reMarkable 2

#78

Post by cyann »

I wish Remarkable would release an Apple Silicon (arm64) version of their desktop companion app.

I've got to keep an old Intel MacBook for these "legacy" apps, it's not ideal.

It works in Rosetta, but I can't install Rosetta on my main machine. I use it for dev work and the only way I've found to ensure that I don't have x64 code sneaking in is to have Rosetta not installed.

Re: reMarkable 2

#79

Post by tomcam »

roflyear wrote: post #53
snehk wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Amazon recently announced a similar product and it seems like Remarkable has increased their marketing budget because of this.

Yah HN is gamed big time. Must be easy to get stuff to the front page.

Prove it

Re: reMarkable 2

#80

Post by afandian »

wiseowise wrote: post #71
afandian wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They broke that feature. They’ve been quite responsive to my Zendesk ticket, and claim to be working on it. But I don’t know if they fixed it yet. For a number of versions at least it was impossible to use USB upload. Also, it was always advertised as “experimental”. They don’t officially support non-cloud use. Edit: To clarify that last comment, I mean non-cloud use for the advertised primary benefits. I.e. getting…

> They don’t officially support non-cloud use. Stop spreading FUD, they literally have a page that lists what you can do without cloud. https://support.remarkable.com/s/article/Using-reMarkable-wi...

That's a selective quote. I'm talking about being able to get files on and off the device.

That notwithstanding, looking at the page you link, let's look at each heading and what it says.

Google Drive, Dropbox, and OneDrive integration

https://support.remarkable.com/s/article/Integrating-with-Go...

"Step 1: Log in to my.remarkable.com and click the menu in the top right-hand corner."

Handwriting conversion

https://support.remarkable.com/s/article/Convert-handwritten...

"You need to be connected to a Wi-Fi network and logged into a reMarkable account (my.remarkable.com) in order to use handwriting conversion."

Read on reMarkable

Chrome:

https://support.remarkable.com/s/article/Read-on-reMarkable-...

"You’ll also need a reMarkable account to use this feature."

Microsoft Office:

https://support.remarkable.com/s/article/Read-on-reMarkable-...

"8. Log in with your reMarkable account."

Screen Share

https://support.remarkable.com/s/article/Screen-Share

"Your reMarkable needs to be paired with the cloud"

Send by email

https://support.remarkable.com/s/article/Send-by-email

"Note: You must be connected to Wi-Fi to share files from your reMarkable. You won’t see an option to send a file if you’re not connected to Wi-Fi and signed into an account."

Tags

https://support.remarkable.com/s/article/Tags

You can tag pages without a cloud account. It's useful but at best an anciliary feature.

Limited cloud sync

https://support.remarkable.com/s/article/Connect

You need an account.

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