Also, it was always advertised as “experimental”. They don’t officially support non-cloud use.
Edit: To clarify that last comment, I mean non-cloud use for the advertised primary benefits. I.e. getting your notes off (and onto) the device.
Stop spreading FUD, they literally have a page that lists what you can do without cloud.
https://support.remarkable.com/s/article/Using-reMarkable-wi...
These are cloud services.
> Handwriting conversion
> You need to be connected to Wi-Fi and logged in to your reMarkable account.
> Read on reMarkable
> Once you’ve logged into your account and sent content to your reMarkable paper tablet, you can review, annotate, and focus on the task you’re working on without any distractions.
Almost every use-case requires some sort of connectivity to a cloud. No mention of USB.
That notwithstanding, looking at the page you link, let's look at each heading and what it says.
Google Drive, Dropbox, and OneDrive integration
https://support.remarkable.com/s/article/Integrating-with-Go...
"Step 1: Log in to my.remarkable.com and click the menu in the top right-hand corner."
Handwriting conversion
https://support.remarkable.com/s/article/Convert-handwritten...
"You need to be connected to a Wi-Fi network and logged into a reMarkable account (my.remarkable.com) in order to use handwriting conversion."
Read on reMarkable
Chrome:
https://support.remarkable.com/s/article/Read-on-reMarkable-...
"You’ll also need a reMarkable account to use this feature."
Microsoft Office:
https://support.remarkable.com/s/article/Read-on-reMarkable-...
"8. Log in with your reMarkable account."
Screen Share
https://support.remarkable.com/s/article/Screen-Share
"Your reMarkable needs to be paired with the cloud"
Send by email
https://support.remarkable.com/s/article/Send-by-email
"Note: You must be connected to Wi-Fi to share files from your reMarkable. You won’t see an option to send a file if you’re not connected to Wi-Fi and signed into an account."
Tags
https://support.remarkable.com/s/article/Tags
You can tag pages without a cloud account. It's useful but at best an anciliary feature.
Limited cloud sync
https://support.remarkable.com/s/article/Connect
You need an account.
> Cloud computing is the on-demand availability of computer system resources, especially data storage (cloud storage) and computing power, without direct active management by the user [0]
i.e. "someone else's computer". I want the core advertised reMarkable features to be on my computer(s). Not half mine, half theirs.
https://support.remarkable.com/s/article/Using-reMarkable-wi...
But as a user, my impression is that they don’t consider this feature to be existential enough to have a smoke test for. And I do.
And for a long time (I'm an early v1 user) what they did deliver was miniscule, ignoring a lot of the feedback from core users about basic issues. Some of the "new" features being released recently even existed in early v1 releases, e.g. the screen sharing which used to work fine locally, but now doesn't anymore because it "needs" to go via their cloud.
The break stuff unintentionally too though, so you're right there. For a few releases they even broke the core writing feature - lines and drawings would be drawn all jaggy - and the fix took forever.
The marketing worked and tricked me into buying one, but it's clear to me now that reMarkable is first and foremost a marketing company, tech and users come second. I won't be spending any more money with them.