Before buying remarkable, compare remarkable to a BOOX device. I did just that and my conclusion was that remarkable is an overpriced piece of tech at risk of being abandoned.
For example, just the reading software on BOOX is leaps and bounds ahead of Remarkable. Similarly, on BOOX, you've got Android, which opens up a number of possibilities, while remarkable uses Linux (which sounds awesome until you realize that nobody's going to custom-develop apps for a very niche device in a very niche ecosystem). Technically speaking though, this means that once abandoned, Remarkable will not be completely dead.
A comment in a comparison video I'd recommend you watch [1] summed it up pretty nicely: " The Remarkable is remarkable for the amount of stuff it doesn't have." The only thing that Remarkable wins at is the actual writing experience (which you can top with a $30 fountain pen).
I was seriously considering buying Remarkable. I've bought a BOOX Lumi instead, and it has been a great experience.
The Remarkable is intended to primarily be a digital notebook and their advertising is very clear on that. It's not intended to run apps, it's not intended as e-book reader (though it has some limited capabilities), it doesn't have a browser, etc., nor do they intend to add such things.
The parent is correct that people who are looking for those things should not be considering the Remarkable, but that is not a demerit of the device.
Essentially, what I'm claiming is that the only thing RM2 does better than a device like BOOX is that the writing feels better. It's not even better organized, the note app is not better in any way AFAICT, it just feels slightly more like paper.
In other words, the RM2 marketing can dress this up as whatever it wants. In the current market, the only person who's better served by RM2 than by its competitors is a person that loves the feeling of writing on a paper and is willing to trade it for a number of features.
You can have a BOOX full-on digital notebook as well.
While of course Remarkable positioned itself as a notebook. But in practise it is not. You really want to use these 300-500$ devices for something other than just expensive notebooks. Some people want to write on whitepaper pdfs, others want their comic books and then there's notetaking. And you can draw, yes, if you really, REALLY want it.
But it just doesn't feel like real drawing, even Remarkable is... okay at best. And not okay, given the price and the limited feature set.
So I went with a 10.3 inch Boox Note instead of Remarkable a couple of years ago. Never regreted it! I read my whitepapers, write on these, easily navigate multicolumn docs. My daughter loves reading her comic books, writing on them, etc. I also do some notetaking.
But that's just a perspective who dives into sci-oriented writing a lot. For other people Remarkable's slightly better writing is totally worth it - and that's ok.
Boox is a next gen version. And it is incredible. Just don't compare it to remarkable. Remarkable was always hobbyist turned company product. And it was great.
For example, just the reading software on BOOX is leaps and bounds ahead of Remarkable. Similarly, on BOOX, you've got Android, which opens up a number of possibilities, while remarkable uses Linux (which sounds awesome until you realize that nobody's going to custom-develop apps for a very niche device in a very niche ecosystem). Technically speaking though, this means that once abandoned, Remarkable will not be completely dead.
A comment in a comparison video I'd recommend you watch [1] summed it up pretty nicely: " The Remarkable is remarkable for the amount of stuff it doesn't have." The only thing that Remarkable wins at is the actual writing experience (which you can top with a $30 fountain pen).
I was seriously considering buying Remarkable. I've bought a BOOX Lumi instead, and it has been a great experience.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClQp1o6qPj8