[Tsiklon]

The user group on Facebook did not take the news of this new subscription well at all.

Personally I’m on the fence about it, I got my remarkable 2 last year and I’ve been very pleased with all the updates and features they’ve added to it, I’m also pleased that existing purchasers and users are grandfathered in to the new plan.

What I’m less enthusiastic about is for the potential of new features being exclusive to a higher tier plan than the grandfathered connect plan.

I’m less enthusiastic about recommending the system to new users as well because of the initial expense of the tablet and the ongoing increased costs to ownership that new users will face.

I know many creative types who would love to use this solution, but the expense of the subscription on top of the cost of the device means that it’s prohibitively expensive for them.

I wish remarkable well with this venture because it was probably a difficult choice to make, the risks of potentially closing the door on some new users must have potentially outweighed the revenue gains on new customers. It can’t have sat well with everyone at the organisation, given how they’ve been so good with new features and updates to both versions of the hardware.

[panda88888]

Completely agree with you. I preordered both gen 1 and gen 2, and after receiving the gen 2 I passed my gen 1 around among friends interested in remarkable to help them decide if the device fits their usage pattern.

IMO remarkable already have extremely stiff competition from the iPads, and the only advantage is it’s eink display. The iPad is pretty much better in every other dimension except for the eink display, but then it’s different rather than worse, since it allows for much more applications (graphics, movies, etc). I truly wish the best for remarkable and for them to start the flood of more high quality eink reader/writer devices.

[salamandersauce]

Not just iPads. Kobo has recently gotten into the big eInk screen notetaker game too. They have a 10" model that comes with the pen and a case for the same price as the RM2 by itself and they just introduced an 8" model with pen support. Oynx Boox seems to be stepping up their game too and there is the Pinenote. RM has better writing feel but to ask $100 a year to connect to Dropbox which your competitors do for free seems like a poor move. Especially when they STILL don't have basics like ePub support fully nailed down.