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1. How long is the term of the 'free' offer for existing users? No term is specified. Does that mean they will attempt billing (or cutoff service) after a year?
2. What exactly will happen to the existing online services, and when? They mention this is a transition but there's no timeline. Is this a new platform from scratch or just a paywall on what already exists?
This has soured me on reMarkable, and probably means that I won't buy the gen3 device when they get to it - despite me having been a big advocate for them until now. Not everything needs to be a subscription. I don't care about your cloud storage (in fact, I would prefer to just use my own), and the other "features" should be table stakes for something which costs so much to buy in the first place.
My impression is that the reMarkable has pretty poor hardware, and a rather exotic software (for a tablet). Which means they are limited in what they can do on the device, and the support they can harvest from community. Which also means, outsourcing stuff to the cloud is a natural effect, which means demanding money for running the cloud is also natural. For similar reasons the device is expensive and still has a ra…
That's a lot more than you get from most devices of this type.
This has soured me on reMarkable, and probably means that I won't buy the gen3 device when they get to it - despite me having been a big advocate for them until now. Not everything needs to be a subscription. I don't care about your cloud storage (in fact, I would prefer to just use my own), and the other "features" should be table stakes for something which costs so much to buy in the first place.
Indeed. I truly hope that PineNote takes off: https://www.pine64.org/pinenote/
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No subscription is an option. I'm not sure how much of your own sync you could setup, but the subscription isn't forced upon you.
You can do your own sync in a hacky manner - but if I were going down that route, I'd just choose one of the more open (and cheaper) alternative devices.
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No subscription is an option. I'm not sure how much of your own sync you could setup, but the subscription isn't forced upon you.
You can do your own sync in a hacky manner - but if I were going down that route, I'd just choose one of the more open (and cheaper) alternative devices.
There 3 Options: 1. Connect: $7.99 per month 2. Connect Lite: $4.99 per month 3. No Plan: but the device costs more I dug in deep to find the prices so others don't have to. Personally, I'm fine with this model a lot of the great features are probably supported by doing compute in the cloud and there are also huge advantages to having storage in the cloud.
The storage integration should be on the device, they choose to make it via the cloud service. There is no technical reason they could not have made it work directly on the device.
Further their 2 largest competitors in the Space, SuperNote, and Boox all seem to be able to offers these features and more for free.
What this also means long term is that any openness of the device is under a Damocles sword and will be actively expanded except where GPL demands it. The benefit of openness does not appear directly in a spreadsheet like a subscription service does, and if people start trying to supercede the subscription service, they will attack it.
Or just not continue it into the next iteration.
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