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@icedquinn Sounds like their "existing" customers wont exist for much longer because they are about to buy all the junk they need for the next year at half price somewhere else :)
factorio and rimworld in the software world have shown its probably better to support a product and never go on sale, and they certainly aimed for that with their build choices (self healing screen guards pre-installed, durable nibs instead of designed to fail to put you on a vig of buying replacements)
@icedquinn I just use full fledges android devices with e-ink displays.. has almost as good battery life, and givesme all the advantages of android apps.
t. newton owner
@icedquinn If you want a digitizer on Android you need to go with BOOX... they specially designed their digitizer not to have the same issues.
@icedquinn Are they now? I wasnt aware... good reason.
boox basically said we're chinese we don't care about copyleft violations.
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the digitizer works fine on the samsungs. the problem is that android and ios have stupid UX that is designed around fat fingering on a consumption device. its not designed for a pen.
the newton was unique in that they designed the whole system to be digital paper. there's no real "focus" mechanics like a mouse and keeb interface where you select a field to type in. the forms *look* like paper forms, you just *write* on a text field and it does recognition.
sadly none of the epaper tablets meet the newton's design, although the specialized ones are closer i guess.
@icedquinn @freemo I know that might appeal to other people but to me it sounds like the worst thing ever. One of the reasons I like computers so much is that I don't have to hand-write anything, I only write my signature a couple times a year and otherwise treat pen and paper as evil artifacts of times bygone.
with the advent of ASCII computing you no longer see anything like this. everything is romanized because that's what the keyboard does. maybe in the 8-bit days it was common to tamper with the font memory a bit so you could get a couple custom glyphs that way. but that's gone too--you get what you're given and you are given what can get pushed past Unicode consortium and drawn in to the font.
god forbid with things like Word typography itself is also dead.
idk. you can't type a blobcat. but you can scribble one.
i'm shut up now
Word has caused a lot of damage to human communication