[dredmorbius]

When assessing e-book / e-ink options earlier this year, what soured me on reMarkable was its anaemic onboard storage (16 GB) and lack of extensibility. I'd written the company regarding plans for expansion. When reMarkable II was announced ... and continued to have only 16GB storage, I passed. Note that the price differential between 16 and even 128 GB storage is only a few tens of dollars.

The notion of a Linux-based tablet was appealing. I hugely dislike Android. However I purchased an Onyx BOOX with 64 GB onboard storage. It is a fairly customised Android build (and largely de-Googled). This provides access to several useful apps (Firefox, Pocket, and Termux most notably), as well as built-in Bluetooth support meaning external keyboards can be used. (reMarkable supports this only through a hardware connection.)

I'd really like a viable Linux tablet. I'm keeping an eye on Pine's offerings. But reMarkable appear to be headed in an unfortunate direction.

My interpretation is that reMarkable are crippling onboard storage (much as Google have on Android devices) to drive adoption of cloud-based services, whether for surviellance (in Google's case) or subscription revenues (in reMarkable's).