I previosuly owned a reMarkable 1. Today I use an iPad Air with Concepts [1]. The iPad just works and the Apple Pencil smoothness and responsiveness is unparall

I previosuly owned a reMarkable 1. Today I use an iPad Air with Concepts [1]. The iPad just works and the Apple Pencil smoothness and responsiveness is unparalleled. I was enamored by the idea of a "hackable" linux eInk writing tablet. But I found none of that matters when all you want to do is write/draw. The eInk offers great readability and battery life, but you still have to charge the tablet. With an iPad it's daily vs weekly with the reMarkable. But I found myself with a dead reMarkable during the most inopportune moments several times. When something only needs to be charged weekly you end up forgetting. Whereas everyday charging becomes habitual. Also I was never really outside or in brightly lit rooms where the eInk made sense. For me the eInk display was not a benefit. The pen had noticeable lag but was okay. What was really bad was the digitizer dead zones where the pen did not work at all, was overly sensitive (as in I could write with the pen a few mm above the display) or the writing had artifacts (stretching/jagged edges). Touch sensitivity wasnt great. Simple things like zooming and touch gestures was not intuitive. Writings had jaggeded edges and other artifacts. Never smooth like the Apple Pencil. None of the built in brushes where suitable for writing- either to thick, thin or just plain weird. The OS was not really hackable. Any changes might be blown away by software updates. It runs a closed source Qt app called Xochitl which does everything from the UI, syncing, rendering. I hear the RM 2 is even harder to hook into things like the frame buffer. With RM1 you can use /dev/fb0 but in RM2 everything is done in software with QT. Did you know drawing on eInk display is temperature sensitive? The homebrew software leaves a lot to be desired. Can break or brick your tablet. Addingfeatures to Xochitl is based on patching the binary which can also brick the tablet and gets wiped out on software update. Syncing to the cloud worked well but I was concerned about privacy. It could not find any definitive answer to confirm my notes where being encrypted end to end. I was grandfathered when they made cloud features paid but I wouldn't pay for what they are offering. The offline sync via local server worked okay. In conclusion, the $400 asking price for a glorified eReader with a pen was not a good value. Also they started making their cloud a paid service. My guess is to have some recurring revenue coming in. This concerned me as I wasn't sure about the long term viability of the company. If they went under would my data be held hostage on the tablet. What about replacement parts like nibs and batteries. Also speaking of battery this tablet is worse than an iPad. You basically have to destroy the case to get access to the battery if you want to replace it. And as far as I could tell there are no replacement cases. [1] https://concepts.app/en/ https://concepts.app/en/