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You can easily sync your handwritten notes to your computer and phone for free using the app. Once synced, you can back them up with your preferred method. The cloud service is designed to be a convenient, set-it-and-forget-it option.

Asking for a perpetual cloud synchronization at no cost is bold.

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Why is there need for their cloud in the first place? I mean if I already own a Google Drive account, why should I need a pair of hands in the midpoint to drag my data around?

So use your Google Drive account for syncing instead of their services then.

Remarkable supports Dropbox, Google Drive and OneDrive integrations.

I use the Google Drive integration regularly.

The Google drive integration is completely different to the connect one.

It’s not automatic, it’s manual.

It works essentially in the same way that the ‘send to email’ feature works. Which means if you make a change to a file, you have to delete the file on gdrive and reupload it.

Of course it's different. reMarkable are trying to leverage their own solution. It pays for them to make the user journey a little more awkward. But 3rd party integrations still exist and they do still work.

And they needlessly crippled them, hence I'll never buy an expensive product from them.

It's capitalism, baby!

An open API to replicate and automate the app functionality for backup locally is not incredibly much to ask for.

Nobody is asking for a free sync server.

Bingo, Boox support WebDAV or FTP file sync and it's a breeze to use. It pains me how much of modern tech doesn't support the very standards half of it's built on. All to moat users into their domain.

I agree with your point more generally but FTP, specifically, deserves to die.

Don't even need the app. I use ssh/scp

You do know that Apple provides 5GB free cloud synchronization right? And Google also has 15GB free. For those who value convenience this is now table stakes to provide free cloud sync for small amount of data. And frankly 5GB is enough for handwritten notes.

That is a fair point. But if a product doesn't fit people needs, there is no need to disparage it.

For fairness, I bought a Remarkable 2 and works fine, but I do not use it anymore because it does not fit my needs.

i tried to use it a few months ago for the real time share of the screen. it didn’t work and also the files were not syncing with the service i am paying for. it wanted an update, but the update failed each time.

after digging (which is something i shouldn’t have wasted my time on), it seems that it lost the correct time because i didn’t power it for a while and there was no way to set the time manually. because of that, the signature for validating the firmware update was failing (it uses the time).

there was nothing i could do. it fixed itself few days later, after i gave up.

this is still unpolished so many years after the first release. i’m not sure i would recommend it to anyone. i’m sure i will trust it to work next time i will give it another chance.

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