| What I would consider the killer features for this, if present (as in, if guaranteed these, I would buy it): - The ability to use it as a drawing tablet for another computer. It's already a perfectly good large touch-sensitive surface meant for drawing, why should I need to buy a second one for Illustrator? - ssh, and some way to connect an external keyboard. E-paper is excellent for a terminal, and this is big enough to be useful. - Some way to use purely as a display, whether by some plug or by X-server broadcasting via SSH or some form of screen-sharing client. Most non-video uses of a computer (if color is not crucial) work just fine on e-paper. - The ability to turn off cloud-sync. Sorry, but I'm not sending you everything I write. For some people that might even go deeper than a personal choice (NDAs, if they work on anything proprietary, depending on how they're phrased). So, basically, the ability to use it for its components and not just the singular agglomeration of them that you envision. I put that above even the ability to write your own software for it. In other words, if ReMarkable has the following, I would have already pre-ordered, even if it's got nothing else: - an e-paper touch display - plus Wi-Fi, USB, HDMI, etc. - the ability to disable automatic cloud sync - with four built-in programs: -- ssh -- drivers-for-use-as-drawing-tablet -- VNC client -- The reader/drawing program demonstrated in the video, for use alone |