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phrz | 3 years ago

A wonderful product ruined by a proprietary cloud. The problem with the latter was very promptly proven by the unilateral imposition of a subscription. The product is useless without its cloud.

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Jataman606|3 years ago

What do you mean by useless? Does it completely not work when not connected to the cloud or you just loose sync between devices feature?

wiseowise|3 years ago

I don’t use cloud and find it perfectly usable without it.

I think there’s also a way to setup private cloud.

badwolf|3 years ago

I use a RM2 every day. I don't pay for the subscription. After they emailed me that my free trial was ending, I just turned it off, because I didn't use any of the subscription features

alwayslikethis|3 years ago

I have an Onyx Boox e-ink writing device. While it also has a cloud service, it seems to be less necessary since it is just Android so you can just install whatever you need on it. I use Syncthing for this and it works fine.

esperent|3 years ago

How is the writing/drawing latency in practice? I watched some videos comparing the Remarkable 2, Supernote a5, and Boox Note 2.

From the video it looked like the Boox had a bad delay. Could appear worse because of the backlight which increases distance from pen to screen.

The Supernote and Remarkable also had visible delay that would annoy me, but the larger delay of the Boox looked like a deal breaker to me.

jesterson|3 years ago

Wonderful product ruined by marketing. The only reason they have proprietary cloud is to be able to suck money out of users.