<story><title>ReMarkable Paper Tablet</title><url>https://blog.getremarkable.com/better-paper-better-thinking-432d8a283300#.g7jp42ohv</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pttrsmrt</author><text>I was sold until this line:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Your thoughts, whether they’re words or sketches, are instantly synced to reMarkable’s cloud service&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Imagine for a company only five years back to literally say that your thoughts are sent to their server. I welcome any product that understand we need less distractions and less help from so-called AI, but there are many reasons to be cautious about this one (preorder, latency claim and lack of technical details being some of them).&lt;p&gt;EDIT: After looking a bit more around, their technical claims does seem credible. Their CTO is&amp;#x2F;was even a developer at KDE, so let&amp;#x27;s hope they also will support open standards and personal servers. If so then it&amp;#x27;s literally the device I&amp;#x27;ve always been dreaming of!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sandsmark</author><text>the reason we&amp;#x27;re a bit scant on technical details so far is partly because we have spent most of our technical resources on actually making the device. but we&amp;#x27;ll try to get out a more technical blog post soon.&lt;p&gt;another reason is that we can&amp;#x27;t share too much about what we&amp;#x27;re working on in case some journalist picks up some wording as promising some feature we can&amp;#x27;t deliver on. a lot of the stuff we&amp;#x27;re working on is stuff we don&amp;#x27;t know if we can deliver in time, in a polished enough form. so what we&amp;#x27;re talking about is what we have already solved, and which we believe is going to sell the device best to the people we target.&lt;p&gt;lastly, Certain Companies that have tried to do this for years are really, really interested in how we have solved the latency problem, and we don&amp;#x27;t want to help them.&lt;p&gt;EDIT:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Their CTO is&amp;#x2F;was even a developer at KDE&lt;p&gt;is, thank you very much (latest commit was to kio on saturday). even if I don&amp;#x27;t have as much time for KDE stuff as I used to for obvious reasons.</text></comment>
<story><title>ReMarkable Paper Tablet</title><url>https://blog.getremarkable.com/better-paper-better-thinking-432d8a283300#.g7jp42ohv</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pttrsmrt</author><text>I was sold until this line:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Your thoughts, whether they’re words or sketches, are instantly synced to reMarkable’s cloud service&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Imagine for a company only five years back to literally say that your thoughts are sent to their server. I welcome any product that understand we need less distractions and less help from so-called AI, but there are many reasons to be cautious about this one (preorder, latency claim and lack of technical details being some of them).&lt;p&gt;EDIT: After looking a bit more around, their technical claims does seem credible. Their CTO is&amp;#x2F;was even a developer at KDE, so let&amp;#x27;s hope they also will support open standards and personal servers. If so then it&amp;#x27;s literally the device I&amp;#x27;ve always been dreaming of!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gizzlon</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m one of the guys working on this. We make money on the product, storing this stuff actually costs us.. So we have no intentions of syncing more than you would want to :)&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s some tech specs on the site (getremarkable.com)</text></comment>