ReMarkable: The paper tablet for people who prefer paper
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Edit: I see on their FAQ this question-and-answer:
DO YOU PROVIDE THE REMARKABLE WITH A SDK FOR CUSTOM DEVELOPMENT? The reMarkable will not initially ship with an officially supported SDK. We might however release an unsupported SDK for best developers.
What defines a "best developer"?
I have a boogie board sync and while I enjoy it because of the feel of writing just like on paper, the contrast keeps me from using it for everything. The boogie board sync is an awesome doodling and brain storming tool though.
I'd love it if this actually delivers on it promises - even at the full price.
There's no CGI in the product movie, we don't want to show anything we can't deliver.
It needn't be perfect. Most potential early adopters here would understand that the software might not be ready for prime-time but with a device such as this, you'd need a more 'real' presentation than a marketing video if you expect pre-orders -- at least IMHO.
I have some videos of myself when we first got the livesync to work last summer, but I'll have to discuss if I can post them publicly. The issue is that we don't want to show functionality we can't deliver, and there's some other really neat functionality visible that we might not have the time and resources to include in the initial release. It's also on a much earlier prototype, so we might have to film something new for it to be representative of the device.
But tbh. it is mostly something I want to do personally for street cred, the pre-orders are going way, way better than intended already.
And lastly, only the people in the intro and outro are actors, I'm sure my co-workers will take it as a compliment that people confuse them with professional actors. :-)
Ok sounds reasonable.
So I'll be honest here, I really am hoping this is all that you claim it to be, but since I've followed what is considered the current state of the art, a bit, I feel skeptical.
As someone who would love to have this (I know I don't want a tablet, I don't want apps, I want a book... that I can read and I scribble on, just digital, dammit!), I want this to be true and your video hasn't convinced me yet. That's all :-)
Basically I'm hoping for something that you can get me from 'super-cool-me-want' to 'here-take-my-money'.
Wish you the best. I'll be watching you guys.
In the first video, at 1:50 someone is writing in a screen that looks like a page with rows[1]. Can I change the distance between the rows? Can I use a graph paper[1] or plotting paper[1]? Can I remove the lines after I made a draw?
It uses a special pen. Where do you store it while you are not using it?
[1] I'm from Argentina, so I speak Spanish. I'm not sure about the translation of the name of the different pattern of the lines that you can have in a paper sheet. We call them, "hoja con renglones", "hoja cuadriculada" y "hoja milimetrada". I tried with autotranslation and some other trick with Google, but I'm not sure that I got the correct translation.
The pen is stored in the cover (the "Folio").
I'm taking pre-orders on robot unicorns which shit gold bars, if anyone's interested. I don't actually have them in stock yet, but I've designed a slick looking website.