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.
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…
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#42Earlier 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?
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#43I 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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#44Remarkable seem like the type of company that are pouring money into marketing and not much else. To their detriment.
I bought a Remarkable 2 in September. Realized I did not want it, because it was missing a core feature I needed (the ability to search hand written notes, which Goodnotes does, Remarkable does not). Remarkable sends their products via DHL. Who, separately, are an awful shipment carrier.
I called DHL, to have them return to sender (requested by Remarkable). DHL, after 2 days failed to do this... they kept trying to contact whomever had the shipment... why they can't just mark it as return to sender in their system? No one knows.
The product arrived at my doorstep, no signature, just dropped on the porch. Okay.. great. I start the return process. It took Remarkable 4 days to get this process done. First day they email with a return portal, it couldn't find my purchase. Second day they finally respond to my plea for help and send a second portal. That one worked, but the Remarkable support team are terrible and sent incorrect instructions. 3rd day I finally got it squared away and they approved my return the 4th day, which I got shipped out on the 5th day (again via DHL). Oh, and one other mark against Remarkable, they kept referring to my return as "return for replacement" instead of "return for refund" so I had to correct them about 8 times to make sure they were actually going to refund instead of send me a replacement.
It arrives at a local hub. Where it is stuck for 30 days.
During this time, I call DHL to start an investigation as to why it's stalled. They spend 4 days unable to come up with an answer. Reach out to Remarkable again, they start their own investigation and say repeatedly that it is "on it's way." Meanwhile it doesn't move.
Now DHL is only Remarkable's problem in so far as they choose who their carrier is. I didn't get to choose to send it differently. So they can't control what DHL does, but they do need to take ownership of their terrible choice. IMO anyway, it's what I'd do as customer support.
While all this is happening, I'm asking for a refund because the product seems lost in shipment. Around day 20 I ask for a supervisor.
Supervisor responds twice, first time "we're issuing your refund and you should see it in 24 hours." then an hour later "We'll immediately issue you a refund when we receive the product which you'll see in 24-48 hours after."
After day 30 the product finally arrives in Hong Kong, they said 24-48 hours for a refund. 5 days later still no refund.
I thankfully, filed a dispute and it's being taken care of now. But my advice is avoid these clowns.
The product is kind of cool, but their support is awful. Their team is inept. They can't take responsibility for their shortcomings.
This was for a return, imagine dealing with this for an in warranty repair/replacement? Ugh. Awful.
To be clear, we're nearing 45 days from original cancellation and still no direct refund from Remarkable.
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#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
The hardware for the gen 2 is pretty good in my opinion. The only "exotic software" is the notetaking app, the rest of the system is linux. The device is running ssh and the root password is in the licenses file. That's a lot more than you get from most devices of this type.
My 5 year old android-tablet has more ram and cpu than the gen2 remarkable. So I assume they outsourced parts to the cloud simply because it's not running well enough on the tablet itself.
> the rest of the system is linux
Linux, especially on tablets is very exotic. There is no way to benefit from the big ecosystem on android or iOS. Everything must come from the users, the company or regulary desktop-linux, which is not optimized for tabled or eInk. Linux is a good selling point for hackers and nerds, but irrelevant for casual users.
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#46Could this be one of the reasons Remarkable is launching this service? Or are they just trying to get more revenue (and higher profit margins) out of their existing business?
Re: reMarkable Connect subscription plans
#47Earlier 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?
Re: reMarkable Connect subscription plans
#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
The hardware for the gen 2 is pretty good in my opinion. The only "exotic software" is the notetaking app, the rest of the system is linux. The device is running ssh and the root password is in the licenses file. That's a lot more than you get from most devices of this type.
> The hardware for the gen 2 is pretty good in my opinion. My 5 year old android-tablet has more ram and cpu than the gen2 remarkable. So I assume they outsourced parts to the cloud simply because it's not running well enough on the tablet itself. > the rest of the system is linux Linux, especially on tablets is very exotic. There is no way to benefit from the big ecosystem on android or iOS. Everything must come fro…
You want a general purpose eink tablet. The reMarkable is most definitely not.
Re: reMarkable Connect subscription plans
#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
The hardware for the gen 2 is pretty good in my opinion. The only "exotic software" is the notetaking app, the rest of the system is linux. The device is running ssh and the root password is in the licenses file. That's a lot more than you get from most devices of this type.
> The hardware for the gen 2 is pretty good in my opinion. My 5 year old android-tablet has more ram and cpu than the gen2 remarkable. So I assume they outsourced parts to the cloud simply because it's not running well enough on the tablet itself. > the rest of the system is linux Linux, especially on tablets is very exotic. There is no way to benefit from the big ecosystem on android or iOS. Everything must come fro…