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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.
@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 wait remarkable is a rootable linux device? .... oh you do know how to sweet talk me.. tell me more, I might buy!
plenty of returns are because people exactly wanted an iPad instead
@icedquinn I use my BOOX largely for two things... 1) an all-purpose e-reader 2) the ability to notate 3) the ability to take notes.
So as long as remarkable can cover virtually all e-reader formats I might be ok with that.
Oh and number 4: To have the same battery life as a paper book :)
i'd be interested in hearing you impression of the remarkable
i actually like the slick glass haptics on tablets though. my mother's samsung has a "paper-like" from photodon because she likes that, while mine has the 9H. so the stylus gliding over everything like a rollerball all the time is fine.
what bothers me more is i pick up tablet, wait i gotta push the on button, oh its a lock screen i have to slide through that, ok now there's a home screen i have to navigate to the drawing program, load that, ok now i make a new document...
the newton is/was slide button to turn the screen on and its always at the notepad because non-notepad behavior is actually secondary
@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
t. newton owner