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> The subscription mode is for syncing your content on their cloud storage. According to the website the subscription model is for syncing your content to ANY

> The subscription mode is for syncing your content on their cloud storage. According to the website the subscription model is for syncing your content to ANY cloud storage No Sub: No cloud storage of any kind $5/mo: Unlimited cloud storage on their servers $8/mo: Google Drive / Dropbox support https://remarkable.com/store/connect https://remarkable.com/store/connect Thanks but no thanks. I'm not paying anyone $8/mo for the privilege of storing my digital content on another platform. That's bullshit.

bennyp101 5y ago
That's not entirely true, you DO get syncing with no plan, just not unlimited syncing. But yes, I agree it is expensive for just connecting to somebody else's service. https://support.remarkable.com/hc/en-us/articles/4408249146385-No-Plan https://support.remarkable.com/hc/en-us/articles/44082491463...
- newaccount74 5y ago
  "Just connecting to someone elses service" is a pretty thankless job in my opinion. I write software that can connect to 3rd party services. It takes a lot of effort to make sure it all works. There's always stuff that breaks randomly, and it's really hard to debug because you typically get only vague error messages when something fails, and you can't debug from the server side. So you end up spending way too much time making sure your product is compatible with some service, just so your customers can spend money on 3rd party services that you don't earn money from.
  - GekkePrutser 5y ago
    Understood but this work would have been factored in the price of the device already. It's not exactly cheap. With your app you don't have a hardware business to support you.
ithkuil 5y ago
This is about the features they enable through their easy to use UI. You're free to not like it, but that's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about the fact that this is one of the few platforms where I can ssh onto the underlying Linux host and run my damn software and extend it in various ways, which includes syncing docs with whatever storage system I want. Surely, this is for "hackers" use only. This is what I like about this and I'm happy to accept the tradeoff.

bennyp101 5y ago

That's not entirely true, you DO get syncing with no plan, just not unlimited syncing. But yes, I agree it is expensive for just connecting to somebody else's service. https://support.remarkable.com/hc/en-us/articles/4408249146385-No-Plan https://support.remarkable.com/hc/en-us/articles/44082491463...

newaccount74 5y ago
"Just connecting to someone elses service" is a pretty thankless job in my opinion. I write software that can connect to 3rd party services. It takes a lot of effort to make sure it all works. There's always stuff that breaks randomly, and it's really hard to debug because you typically get only vague error messages when something fails, and you can't debug from the server side. So you end up spending way too much time making sure your product is compatible with some service, just so your customers can spend money on 3rd party services that you don't earn money from.
- GekkePrutser 5y ago
  Understood but this work would have been factored in the price of the device already. It's not exactly cheap. With your app you don't have a hardware business to support you.

ithkuil 5y ago

This is about the features they enable through their easy to use UI. You're free to not like it, but that's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about the fact that this is one of the few platforms where I can ssh onto the underlying Linux host and run my damn software and extend it in various ways, which includes syncing docs with whatever storage system I want. Surely, this is for "hackers" use only. This is what I like about this and I'm happy to accept the tradeoff.