Hi All
I’m currently researching the digital paper tablet market. As a fellow enthusiast of digital note-taking and reading technology, I’m exploring the idea of creating a new product that could serve as an alternative to the reMarkable.
I’d love to get your thoughts on a few aspects:
Pricing: Do you feel that the reMarkable tablet is priced appropriately for what it offers? If not, what would you consider a fair price point for a similar product?
Features & Functions: Are there additional features or functions you wish your reMarkable had? This could be anything from software capabilities to hardware improvements.
Likes & Preferences: What aspects of the reMarkable do you especially enjoy?
And of course, any other feedback or suggestions you have would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you so much in advance for your time and for sharing your valuable opinions.
Given the current retail prices of e-ink screens and supporting components, the fact that rM has had to develop custom components for a device for sale in a niche segment, and the retail prices of their competition, the reMarkable was and reMarkable 2 is more than fairly priced.
The only things I'd want next on the reMarkable, given my appreciation of the device and its limitations, would be a more fulsome PDF format support implementation including the ability to move pages between PDF documents and notebooks. I'd also like to be able to use third party keyboards, but this may not be possible on the current rM2 between the absence of a Bluetooth radio and their implementation of the USB-C port. Everything else I trust to the company and its developers, to continue to build the device's features in software in keeping with their philosophy.
On likes and preferences, I especially like how light and effortless the device feels both physically and philosophically. It is literally the easiest thing to grab and go, and it moves with me wherever I do. And it has never lost focus on its core function: replacing a physical notebook. You open it, if necessary find your required page, and just write, or read as the case may be. That is its major differentiator from other allegedly competing devices on the market: it is first, foremost and only a digital book.
For me, honestly, there is no alternative to the reMarkable. It occupies its niche singularly. Everything else that might pretend to be similar to it is either an Android tablet with an e-ink screen or, pointedly, a Kindle.
Without saying much more, the subscription model as currently configured is much and unnecessarily maligned. But this is its own topic.