Charging for cloud storage is fine, but gating features like Dropbox sync, handwriting recognition and sending emails behind the "premium" tier monthly subscription is ridiculous. If a $50 tablet can do all this out of the box, a $450+ one should as well, especially when it is sold specifically for the purpose of note taking.
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#32There 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.
Outside of Cloud Storage (which is is not worth $8/mo) and handwritting there is nothing in their services that require 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 featu…
The cost for the connect plans is what confuses me. For what you get, $5-$8 per month seems oddly expensive. I don't really use any of the features in the full connect plan. The cloud syncing is convenient, and I'd be willing to throw some money their way for it, but $5/month is a lot for what amounts to 8GB of storage.
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#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Pray do tell of those more open (and cheaper) alternative devices?
Not sure it's any open (Kobo devices usually are hackable), but Kobo Elipsa[0] is feature par with Remarkable 2.
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#34There 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.
Outside of Cloud Storage (which is is not worth $8/mo) and handwritting there is nothing in their services that require 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 featu…
Especially considering Dropbox is $10/mo (Annual billing). If you're in Apple's ecosystem, you can get 50gb iCloud storage for $1/mo.
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#35When assessing e-book / e-ink options earlier this year, what soured me on reMarkable was its anaemic onboard storage (16 GB) and lack of extensibility. I'd written the company regarding plans for expansion. When reMarkable II was announced ... and continued to have only 16GB storage, I passed. Note that the price differential between 16 and even 128 GB storage is only a few tens of dollars.
The notion of a Linux-based tablet was appealing. I hugely dislike Android. However I purchased an Onyx BOOX with 64 GB onboard storage. It is a fairly customised Android build (and largely de-Googled). This provides access to several useful apps (Firefox, Pocket, and Termux most notably), as well as built-in Bluetooth support meaning external keyboards can be used. (reMarkable supports this only through a hardware connection.)
I'd really like a viable Linux tablet. I'm keeping an eye on Pine's offerings. But reMarkable appear to be headed in an unfortunate direction.
My interpretation is that reMarkable are crippling onboard storage (much as Google have on Android devices) to drive adoption of cloud-based services, whether for surviellance (in Google's case) or subscription revenues (in reMarkable's).
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#36This does not make me very happy. I already own the tablet, so I get the service for free, but I can't recommend it anymore. For $ 100 per year, it's fairly expensive just to own. And without the service... I mean it's usable, but not something I'd recommend. reMarkable does not support USB mass storage, but it has a pretty buggy Web UI over USB - which will be your only choice if you choose to go with the No Plan route (as far as I understand it). I'd be fine if they were charging for "premium features", but the file synchronization PC - tablet is a needed feature.
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#37User and avocate of the rm2 here; it completely replaced my notepad/s in and out of the office. Worth mentioning that they have given lifetime access to existing customers, but I had been planning on giving devices to staff at the end of the year, this announcement has significantly cooled my enthusiasm. If Remarkable staff are reading and are willing to extend the lifetime offer to existing clients for new purchases…
$WORK allotted each employee a $500USD stipend for our at-home office space. I was just about to buy the rm2, when this change occurred. Instantly soured me on the device.
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#38I am surprised to see no mentioned of Onyx Boox Air in this thread. I bought it recently instead of Remarkable 2 and it's amazing.
You simply can't beat open ecosystem like android with some proprietary crap (unless you're FAANG). Having chrome browser fully in-sync with desktop one is a killer feature for me.
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#39I hope this won't undermine the openness of the device. It seems quite apparent that someone will use the root access of the device to implement the paid features on their own and package it as an alternative UI. And at that point, reMarkable has no other way to prevent that than by locking the device.
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#40ridiculous, as if the device wasn't pretty expensive already. laughable price for the pens as well