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Re: reMarkable 2

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Post by jzb »

eps wrote: post #162

Nice. Lost me at subscription. (Edit, to clarify - not because of what it offers, but because the very existence of a subscription tends to create wrong incentives for the company so to try and push people onto them. Maybe not now, but this will happen. Guaranteed.) Also, I don't see a properly supported way to actually get docs to/from the device without a cloud service, theirs or someone else's. For example, [1] sa…

I had one before they introduced the subscription. Pretty much soured me on the device. The software was still kludgy, and it was clear the direction they were going wasn’t a direction I wanted to go in. Pity, because the hardware was pretty good. But moving things to and from the device sucked.

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Post by wvh »

Aeolun wrote: post #88
senectus1 wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Our (multi billion dollar) company had to tell the exec "no" for these because of the weak security. They just dont seem to care. Other wise we would have hundreds in the business.

What kind of security are they lacking? I compare it with a notepad, which you lock away in a drawer when you don’t want people to access it.

A notepad doesn't sync to the cloud.

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Post by hyperbovine »

jonwinstanley wrote: post #165

A friend of mine uses a kid's writing tablet for taking notes. Search for "writing tablet for kids" to see the kind of thing I mean. It's great for taking notes without wasting paper, then for ones he wants to digitize, he takes a photo with his iPhone and lets iOS do the magic with OCR. For £10 it's actually not a bad alternative and quite nice to have on the desk, plus the battery lasts for months.

Sub-femtosecond display lag too! :-)

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Post by mbreese »

I don’t get it. Is there anything new announced? Because this is a 2 year old device, that judging from the comments a lot of us have.

Am I missing something, or is this a PSA to remind people that the RM2 exists?

Re: reMarkable 2

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Post by CoastalCoder »

indigochill wrote: post #247
blindseer wrote: post #225

Earlier quoted context omitted.

These features were free to begin with! Then they got greedy (imo a marketing / sales background product manager thought they should price more aggressively) and started charging for basic features! Honestly the device was completely unusable at that point. And now they are reverting ONLY because Kindle Scribe is going to be out soon, and they need to look like they are a similar product. I can guarantee that unless…

But if you're worried about greed ruining a good product, Kindle Scribe is an Amazon product and Amazon isn't exactly known for being a champion of its customers (though maybe I'm unfairly conflating their web store with the tablet branch). > or put it in writing that they will not change their service offerings Also I put zero faith in what a company puts in writing unless it's in a legally binding contract. Anythin…

For something really important, I binding contract might not be enough.

IIRC there was a U.S. bankruptcy ruling where supposedly never-sharable info was sold off.

Maybe having the relevant technical data (keys, source code, etc.) held in escrow by a trustworthy party would work?

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Post by kennend3 »

gnicholas wrote: post #13

I'm curious: how does Amazon's foray into this sector affect anyone's feelings? Do people want a single-purpose device like this, or would they rather have a multi-purpose Kindle (or iPad, with more functionality but much less battery life)?

I have tablets (colour display, android/iOS) and a Kindle.

As far as reading is concerned there is no comparison, the kindle wins on nearly every metric.

I just wish they would offer a kindle with a 10" display.

I will probably get the kindle scribe once it has been out for a bit, has good reviews and a software update.

Re: reMarkable 2

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Post by chrisweekly »

Love my rm2, use it for hours every day. But their stylus is overpriced and fragile. LAMY All-Star is a way better choice, 100% compatible, and has a programmable multifn button (hold to access eraser tool, doubletap to undo).

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Post by mikewarot »

The video on their site[1] shows the pen lifting particles directly to the screen, which would be amazing, if true. I dug around for a while to find out how it works, expecting to find some very clever system for detecting the particles that have risen to the surface, etc...

Instead it appears to be just another stylus/display system, with all the downsides that imposes. I could do much better getting a "pen" for my old HP convertable laptop if I wanted that.

[1] https://youtu.be/SWY_bwFMxro?t=87

Re: reMarkable 2

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Post by KennyBlanken »

blindseer wrote: post #225
davidroetzel wrote: post #168

Earlier quoted context omitted.

FWIW, there is a tiny webapp on the device that you access when you follow the instructions above. You do not need to install anything and it worked perfectly fine for me so far. Also, you can ssh into the device and even get root access. I have not tried it yet but I guess scp would work as well. Last but not least: They recently changed their subscription service in a big way, opening up a lot of features that were…

These features were free to begin with! Then they got greedy (imo a marketing / sales background product manager thought they should price more aggressively) and started charging for basic features! Honestly the device was completely unusable at that point. And now they are reverting ONLY because Kindle Scribe is going to be out soon, and they need to look like they are a similar product. I can guarantee that unless…

It's not just fiscal greed, either.

Their services are all hosted in Hong Kong, which means that they're subject to China's domestic spying apparatus and rules on encryption.

You'd have to be a moron to trust a device which uses Chinese-territory-hosted servers to store and OCR your documents.

The remarkable2 is a more expensive (if you count subscription fees for 2-3 years), far less capable, far less private device than an iPad with Apple Pencil. You can get the screen texture for a few dollars off Amazon.

Almost any iPad can do text recognition and handwriting recognition completely offline; this thing can't do any of that without an internet connection.

They keep having to pimp it on HN because it's not a competitive-in-the-marketplace device.

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Post by oakpond »

eps wrote: post #162

Nice. Lost me at subscription. (Edit, to clarify - not because of what it offers, but because the very existence of a subscription tends to create wrong incentives for the company so to try and push people onto them. Maybe not now, but this will happen. Guaranteed.) Also, I don't see a properly supported way to actually get docs to/from the device without a cloud service, theirs or someone else's. For example, [1] sa…

I agree that it should just be a mass storage device.

Fwiw you can connect it to Wifi and transfer files using an open source GUI program called ReMy. It uses ssh. No cloud storage account needed.

https://github.com/bordaigorl/remy

See also https://github.com/reHackable/awesome-reMarkable

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