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cyberax 4 hours ago

Sigh. ReMarkable.

It's just remarkable how they keep shooting themselves in the foot. Their hardware is great, but their software just sucks. And for no real reason, as far as I can understand. They technically do have a cloud subscription that needs to lock out users, I guess?

For example, they don't have handwriting recognition for non-Latin languages. They don't even have on-screen _keyboards_ for non-Latin languages. Their note-taker sucks. Their "remote whiteboard" feature doesn't work reliably. Etc.

Just open source it all, and allow people to fix it. It's clear that your in-house developers can't do that.

rationalist 4 hours ago | parent [-]

But then they can't try to force people into their sweet, sweet subscription services.

cyberax 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Yeah. But then people are not going to buy their hardware. I have a reMarkable from 6 years ago that I'm using to run Toltec and koreader, but I'm not going to buy any new hardware from them.

Was the subscription income worth it?

rationalist 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Same. I'm finally looking to get away from Kindle, and ReMarkable is off the list.