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You can get a normal stylus for $0.36 on aliexpress. I know these ReMarkable are probably not the same, but they aren't $99.64 or $49.64 more complex than a sty
by mosselman 6y ago
You can get a normal stylus for $0.36 on aliexpress. I know these ReMarkable are probably not the same, but they aren't $99.64 or $49.64 more complex than a stylus from aliexpress. So the margin is probably pretty big. Which is OK, you don'
t have the right to use a cheap ReMarkable product or something, but lets not pretend they are doing people any favours by 'letting' them buy their things. They are a company that wants to make a profit, good for them.
- kevin_thibedeau 6y agoIt's a Wacom stylus with nib detection on both ends. Not $0.36.
- mosselman 6y agoI never said that it is. Did you only read the first line of what I wrote?
- mlthoughts2018 6y ago$49 seems like a perfectly low price for a well designed stylus for a limited manufactured tablet. I don’t see any sense in which it’s useful or fair to compare that with $0.36 commodity stylus mass manufactured for commodity tablets.
- tedunangst 6y agoIt's $49 until you lose it, then it transforms into a $99 stylus.
- mosselman 6y agoI was just highlighting that ReMarkable isn’t a charity and they don’t need to be.
- ascar 6y agoThe regular stylus comes for free in the current presale. The eraser stylus is additional 40€, requires additional sensors and required additional R&D. Cost of a product is in the end a function of manufacturing, distribution, expected number of sales and R&D cost with some profit at the end. Considering an Apple stylus retails for 90€, Samsung S Pen for 40€ and Wacom Bamboo stylus for 50€ the current 40€ extra seem absolutely fair for me in a premium niche market.
- JustFinishedBSG 6y ago> required additional R&D Only because Remarkable retardly decided to not go with side buttons in order to preserve the "feel". If I wanted paper I'd use paper, the side button on the Lamy on my remarkable 1 is vastly superior to RM2 back eraser
- samatman 6y agoThere are places on the internet where that particular slur is commonplace. HN is not among them. Please don't.
- tonyhb 6y agoMaybe you can go with the iPad Pro and pay $129 for the "Apple Pencil": https://www.apple.com/apple-pencil/ https://www.apple.com/apple-pencil/. You don't have to buy the $49 Remarkable eraser stylus. You could also get the free one that comes with it.
- mosselman 6y agoDid I offend you when I noted that they make a profit on the stylus? Your comment looks very defensive.
- tonyhb 6y agoNo, you didn't, apologies if it came off that way :) I do find it uh... "remarkable" that people are offended at a $49 upsell from a small company, given $2 trillion + companies do this all of the time at a higher price. That's all I was getting at.