Digitize your doodles with an e-reader you can draw on

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9 points·Foxboron··5 comments

Can I ask, as someone completely outside the industry, why can't this be open? Most users don't want to fiddle and you need to make things just work, I get that for sure. But if I could choose my own syncing service or hack around with the reader software I would buy this in a second.

I don't mean to pick on reMarkable alone. I have the same complaint about Kobo. Does a locked down operating systems really do anything for the bottom line of this company? This is not snark and I'm not judging, I am seriously asking about how hardware companies make these kinds of decisions.

I plan on making it pretty open (ssh access over usb) and release the toolchain etc. that I use, but we don't have the resources to officially support third-party applications.

The OS itself is pretty standard Linux distro, but I might end up just using Debian. I also plan to try to mainline as many of the drivers we use as possible.

One of the issues I personally want to solve is the lack of a hackable e-paper device.

Thanks a lot for the reply. I totally understand the resources argument, especially as I'm probably one of the people who'd come looking to support forums because I bricked my device.

I'm super excited about the idea of a hackable e-paper device and look forward to seeing what happens. Congratulations on the launch, it's a great looking device.

Thank you!

Sink those svensk ships.

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