[KennyBlanken]

It's not just fiscal greed, either.

Their services are all hosted in Hong Kong, which means that they're subject to China's domestic spying apparatus and rules on encryption.

You'd have to be a moron to trust a device which uses Chinese-territory-hosted servers to store and OCR your documents.

The remarkable2 is a more expensive (if you count subscription fees for 2-3 years), far less capable, far less private device than an iPad with Apple Pencil. You can get the screen texture for a few dollars off Amazon.

Almost any iPad can do text recognition and handwriting recognition completely offline; this thing can't do any of that without an internet connection.

They keep having to pimp it on HN because it's not a competitive-in-the-marketplace device.

[caddemon]

The use case for the ReMarkable is not the same as the use case for an iPad. There are other e-ink writing tablets out there besides ReMarkable obviously, but iPad did not at all satisfy what I was looking for in a note taking/paper reading tablet. It was like a glorified second phone with a shit writing interface. Very glad I switched to e-ink.