But wait, there's more! Do you have a moment to talk about our lord and savior, Monthly Recurring Revenue?

Will that thing needs a subscription too? I guess so...

I’m a customer. The hardware (reMarkable 1 refurb) is nice. I bought it a while back before they made this change to the website.

But advertising the price without the pen is so dishonest. It’s not nickel and dime, it’s deceptive marketing. It destroys trust.

It means that as a happy customer, I will never recommend the product.

One thing about the Remarkable is that it, like many other eink tablets uses a Wacom EMR layer so almost any third party Wacom pen should work ($25-50). The Lamy Al-star is pretty good and available worldwide. I like the Staedtler Noris jumbo pen as well (although the nib is significantly softer/rubberier so it might not appeal to everyone). My favorite pen atm, which might not be available globally, is the Wacom CP20206BZ - it's a stylus embedded in a wooden Mitsubishi Hi-Uni shell, and it feels awesome in the hand.

I was a Remarkable 1 early adopter and am grandfathered in on their cloud plan but I actually ended up not using it so much (their software sucked for most of the device lifetime). A couple years ago I ended up switching to a Boox Note 3 instead of a RM2 and it's responsive enough for me (the competition mostly caught up on latency) and as a full Android system, it's much more functional for me. It's been easier for me to keep my PDFs/papers in sync, I can read all my Kobo and Kindle books, and it's fine for notetaking. There's a small niche of YouTubers that do in depth reviews of various eink tablets (My Deep Guide is probably the most in depth) which I'd recommend for anyone in the market.

Premium products cost premium money. Packaging, leather folio, stylus, device itself, they all look, work and feel like top quality.

I really wanted to buy it until noticing the pen + case cost more than the device. That's absurd. I assume it's pointless with any other pen?