Earlier quoted context omitted.
Onyx is knowingly and willfully violating the GPL and claiming detractors are showing an "anti-China bias".
Can you provide a link or some details?
I'd like to see a source for this as well.
reMarkable Connect subscription plans
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#102When I see a hardware company shifting toward subscription revenue, it makes me wonder if they see decreasing revenue opportunities for their hardware business. Apple has shifted toward subscriptions, undoubtedly in part because they could see that iPhones are no longer changing significantly from year to year. Could this be one of the reasons Remarkable is launching this service? Or are they just trying to get more…
I wonder if we will see Framework go down this route?
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#103Man I have been a Remarkable user since the initial crowdfunding, but I feel like they are about to throw it. Many of these features were free up until now. Yes, we get grandfathered in, for now, but you gotta agree to a new TOS which I am sure makes this a time limited offer if they so choose. These niche devices need their community, people who are not only taking a lot of notes, drawing a ton or annotating many pd…
Sounds like they recently hired their first MBA.
They should fire the individuals responsible and blast that news to the world, and focus on providing a device that doesn't become yet another wallet sucker. If they don't, they won't even be a footnote in gadget history. e-ink screens are becoming accessible, patents are expiring, and sbcs and socs are becoming trivial to develop with.
As-a-service models are rent seeking grift and doomed to failure once a sufficient portion of the population becomes tech literate.
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#104I was almost ready to buy a reMarkable 2 even though I don't really need one, because of how cool a gadget that thing is. You know what I mean, right? Looking for reasons and excuses, trying to justify the purchase no matter what.
So this made it much easier.
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#105I have a ReMarkable 1 and II (which I bought for my partner as a gift). They are nice e-readers that are well built. They really do fail on their key promise as a paper replacement however. The one saving grace of having spent so much money on the device is the "Send to ReMarkable" extension in my browser. I received the email a few days ago telling my that those cloud based services, which were advertised as part of…
I have not figured out how to jump directly to chapters yet, and not sure if it’s possible. I uploaded a 900 page ebook, and gave up trying to browse to the page where I left off.
I gave up on their original ereader the day I bought the device. I install KorReader and get all the features I require for free.
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#106I have a ReMarkable 1 and II (which I bought for my partner as a gift). They are nice e-readers that are well built. They really do fail on their key promise as a paper replacement however. The one saving grace of having spent so much money on the device is the "Send to ReMarkable" extension in my browser. I received the email a few days ago telling my that those cloud based services, which were advertised as part of…
I'm in the same boat. I use the rM extensively for meeting notes, but I have never been able to give up on having a paper notebook as well. The problem is mostly the ease of page-flicking; skipping forward and backward on an e-ink device is an O(N) operation, while in a physical book it is O(1). The same problem has basically forced me towards using a Kindle only for fiction where the content is linear - for technica…
I think a physical book is something like O(log n), unless you can crack it precisely to the page you want every time.
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#107$100/year or else I "won’t unlock the full potential of (my) paper tablet" that I just paid $400 for? $60/year for cloud storage? What happened to connecting to the Dropbox/OneDrive/iCloud storage I already have and calling it day? Oh, right, recurring revenue. (EDIT: OIC, 3rd-party cloud storage is in the $100/year tier. But then WTF would I need your unlimited cloud...oh, never mind.) I've recently been trying to t…
I've been hesitating between remarkable or wait and jump onto pinenote. Remarkable seem to have taken that decision for me, in a remarkable way.
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#108The user group on Facebook did not take the news of this new subscription well at all. Personally I’m on the fence about it, I got my remarkable 2 last year and I’ve been very pleased with all the updates and features they’ve added to it, I’m also pleased that existing purchasers and users are grandfathered in to the new plan. What I’m less enthusiastic about is for the potential of new features being exclusive to a…
Completely agree with you. I preordered both gen 1 and gen 2, and after receiving the gen 2 I passed my gen 1 around among friends interested in remarkable to help them decide if the device fits their usage pattern. IMO remarkable already have extremely stiff competition from the iPads, and the only advantage is it’s eink display. The iPad is pretty much better in every other dimension except for the eink display, bu…
Not just iPads. Kobo has recently gotten into the big eInk screen notetaker game too. They have a 10" model that comes with the pen and a case for the same price as the RM2 by itself and they just introduced an 8" model with pen support. Oynx Boox seems to be stepping up their game too and there is the Pinenote. RM has better writing feel but to ask $100 a year to connect to Dropbox which your competitors do for free seems like a poor move. Especially when they STILL don't have basics like ePub support fully nailed down.
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#109Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sounds like they recently hired their first MBA.
They should fire the individuals responsible and blast that news to the world, and focus on providing a device that doesn't become yet another wallet sucker. If they don't, they won't even be a footnote in gadget history. e-ink screens are becoming accessible, patents are expiring, and sbcs and socs are becoming trivial to develop with. As-a-service models are rent seeking grift and doomed to failure once a sufficien…
> As-a-service models are rent seeking grift and doomed to failure once a sufficient portion of the population becomes tech literate
I don't think the tech literacy in western countries will change much. And it has nothing to do with the as-a-service model, which makes a lot of sense in many scenarios, on both the seller's side (predictable cashflow, finances updating old(er) software instead of churning new services/products that need to sell) and the buyers' ( you know you keep getting updates and the provider can't just not fix a serious issue). Why wouldn't a cloud sync service be as a service? You're literally paying for an ongoing thing ( storage somewhere).
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#110reMarkable might do it for me if they had a more powerful CPU onboard and a way to get your code to run on it so the device can be tailored to solve more use-cases.
I'm hesitant to say I want an app-store, because it implies a lot of stuff I don't want, but something like an app-store would make it a very different proposition. It would turn a single use device into a platform. It feels a bit silly to point this out in 2021. I can't say I understand the reMarkable product strategy. There is something extremely Norwegian about it: let's limit our scope to what we're comfortable with and keep ambitions in check. We Norwegians like to play it safe - so we rarely make a difference when it comes to innovation.
I've been on the fence with reMarkable since it was launched. Waiting to see which direction it would head in. I think this announcement probably means it isn't going to be a device for me.
I'm simply not looking for yet another device that requires some form of ongoing engagement (monthly payment) to merely work. I try hard to reduce the number of things sucking money out of my account whether I use them or not.
In order to justify that it would have to be on par with my mobile in terms of "importance" - and right now the reMarkable kind of struggles to beat pen and paper for me. This makes me a bit sad, because I think there is a lot of untapped potential in eInk form factors. Especially form factors that lend themselves to interactivity.
I think reMarkable needs to multiply all their ambitions by an order of magnitude or two, find funding and get to work. This announcement feels a bit like they're giving up on having ambitions.