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by ocdtrekkie 1710 days ago
This is disappointing. My wife has one and loves it, and I was about to buy one my own. Now I don't know if I want to, knowing I'll get one intentionally crippled in comparison.

The price hike on the Marker Plus to incentivize the subscription is a nasty choice too.
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kadoban 1710 days ago
It's a great device (for certain use-cases). My advice would be to just avoid the cloud features anyway if you can. If some of them are important to you, and can't be replaced by third-party tools (many can), yeah maybe a different device is better for you.

I never even created a cloud account, partly for privacy, partly to avoid crap like this.

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ocdtrekkie 1710 days ago
It's the double hit though... they're also jacking the Marker Plus price to try to force a subscription.
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kadoban 1710 days ago
Yeah that's a kick in the pants. Maybe just buy second-hand? Not sure.
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turtlebits 1710 days ago
The cloud features were never promised, your wife is getting an early adopter bonus.

It also doesn't preclude devs from developing 3rd party sync solutions.

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