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.
The use case for the ReMarkable is not the same as the use case for an iPad. There are other e-ink writing tablets out there besides ReMarkable obviously, but iPad did not at all satisfy what I was looking for in a note taking/paper reading tablet. It was like a glorified second phone with a shit writing interface. Very glad I switched to e-ink.
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.