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According to this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28847243 if you buy before December 21 you get it free for lifetime
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Remarkable starts implementing subscription plans for its cloud features
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Re: Remarkable starts implementing subscription plans for its cloud features
#62Oh, wow. I had never heard of this device before, and looking at their website was an emotional rollercoaster. I went from “wow, I need this”, to “oh dear lord, absolutely not” several times, the whole connect thing, pricing around accessories, and lack of “formal” support for many cloud storage options leave me unimpressed. Their website makes a real spammy impression, and really doesn’t inspire confidence. I need t…
There are alternative devices ( although the remarkables are considered to be among the best for note taking), each with their own drawbacks and advantages. For instance the Onyx Booxes come in different sizes, are full fledged Androids so you can install anything you want( so great for reading whatever), note taking is pretty good, but the company violates the GPL. The PineNote is open source and will run Linux, but development versions should come out later this year, so it's not exactly close to being ready.
So if you look around you'll probably find a similar device with the tradeoffs you're willing to make.
Re: Remarkable starts implementing subscription plans for its cloud features
#63what's remarkable (sorry) is that I'm a customer but heard about this only here on HN...
Likewise - incredibly disappointed. I don't even want to use their cloud storage; I'd much rather be syncing to a server I control. With the current pricing and the fact that I passed on my old rM1 to my wife when I got an rM2, we'd be looking at 2 subscriptions when we next upgrade devices - which pretty much rules it out.
Re: Remarkable starts implementing subscription plans for its cloud features
#64Comment aside, I'd love to buy a Remarkable, but I'm not going to do so. The reason is that: "by default remarkable doesn't come with a marker". How can that even be possible? And I'm not sure if it's possible to use something else as a marker. The marker is just 59 euros. Of course I'd also like the cover, such an expensive device without a minimum protection is not a good idea. The cover costs 119 euros. That's a total of 178 euros for a device that costs 399. So that almost amounts to 45% of the cost of the device. Can anyone explain me why such a rip off? Even if I had a ton of money I wouldn't buy...
Re: Remarkable starts implementing subscription plans for its cloud features
#65Comment aside, I'd love to buy a Remarkable, but I'm not going to do so. The reason is that: "by default remarkable doesn't come with a marker". How can that even be possible? And I'm not sure if it's possible to use something else as a marker. The marker is just 59 euros. Of course I'd also like the cover, such an expensive device without a minimum protection is not a good idea. The cover costs 119 euros. That's a t…
People who really want it will pay for it, I know a few. There isn't really any competition.
Re: Remarkable starts implementing subscription plans for its cloud features
#66Screen share requires you to share everything you write with Remarkable? I'd expect to be able to do that over USB, and all the data stays local
Thankfully since the device is hackable you can do that easily with third-party tools. But yeah it's lame that that's tied to the cloud account for the official stuff.
Easily is an overstatement, given number of changes they did recently. I'm trying for over a year to find stable replacement for remarkable desktop app (which syncs all my data without my control) on a company computer for screen sharing. And have only just now found a way to do that in a stable way with the new "share" from RM and rmview 3 opensource app. Before that more things didn't work then did (various issues, crashes, incorrect screen sizes, all soft of things).
But I'm certain this idiotic step by remarkable will push more and more devs and hackers to polish their tools create more and more full/complex environment without their cloud.
Re: Remarkable starts implementing subscription plans for its cloud features
#67I wish the Google drive integration was available in the lite plan.
The jump in features between lite and is huge: Handwriting (yeah good luck with mein), screen share, are all advanced features.
I am too cheap to pay $8 per month for it.
As more, and more and more software / products moves to the subscription model I have become extremely selective. $5 here $3 there $15 for that one etc it all ads up quick
Re: Remarkable starts implementing subscription plans for its cloud features
#68Damn. Was on the fence about this tablet for my masters. But I guess they took away any reservations I have. Anyone know any reasonable alternative?
Re: Remarkable starts implementing subscription plans for its cloud features
#69This is extremely disappointing. I've just left a complaint on this issue. They've clearly taken steps to avoid pulling the rug out from under preexisting users, but this practice is overall so scummy for such an expensive, single-purpose product that it is converting me from an evangelist of the product to a protester. I cannot, in good conscience, recommend this product to anyone anymore. I should've listened to my…
> They've clearly taken steps to avoid pulling the rug out from under preexisting users, but this practice is overall so scummy
Why is the practice scummy then? If they did a bait and switch for existing customers, I get that would be scummy. But what’s scummy about raising prices for future customers (who have a free and informed choice whether to actually become customers)? Genuine question, I might be missing what you’re getting at here.
Re: Remarkable starts implementing subscription plans for its cloud features
#70I've been entertaining either a Remarkable2 or a Boox Note Air, but with remote-work over the last year it's been much less compelling. Plus here in Australia we pay a significant premium for these types of devices - f.e. they're advertising the remarkable2 with Connect for USD$299 - but for Australians it's AU$499 (~ US$366). On top of the death by a thousand cuts that is yet another subscription service, the AU ver…
Hey as a fellow Australian, have you heard of freight forwarders? I use them to avoid the Australian tax