reMarkable tablet: A software update makes this forgotten gadget incredibly useful

It’s actually one of the most frustratingly useless gadgets I’ve encountered.

It gets one thing right - drawing is about as paper-like as I’ve seen. OCR might make that even better. But unfortunately, all that means it’s a very, very expensive notepad.

It does not fit into any digital workflow. Up- and downloading documents to and from the device is a gigantic pain in the arse, largely because it doesn’t provide sync with common cloud providers, and doesn’t act as a USB storage device as pretty much any other gadget does.

Consequently, you’re bound to their special tools - and “special” is the operative term here. You connect via ethernet-over-USB to a web interface that doesn’t have UI for adding files, doesn’t let you sort files, doesn’t manage to show progress on uploads, and fails randomly during uploads.

Seriously, this is a piece of shit hardware.

I’m sorry, because I’d like smaller companies to have success, and like the drawing experience. But this is so utterly terrible, that it can’t be excused any longer, after so many years of time in which they could have fixed it.

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