Completely agree with you. I preordered both gen 1 and gen 2, and after receiving the gen 2 I passed my gen 1 around among friends interested in remarkable to help them decide if the device fits their usage pattern.
IMO remarkable already have extremely stiff competition from the iPads, and the only advantage is it’s eink display. The iPad is pretty much better in every other dimension except for the eink display, but then it’s different rather than worse, since it allows for much more applications (graphics, movies, etc). I truly wish the best for remarkable and for them to start the flood of more high quality eink reader/writer devices.
Not just iPads. Kobo has recently gotten into the big eInk screen notetaker game too. They have a 10" model that comes with the pen and a case for the same price as the RM2 by itself and they just introduced an 8" model with pen support. Oynx Boox seems to be stepping up their game too and there is the Pinenote. RM has better writing feel but to ask $100 a year to connect to Dropbox which your competitors do for free seems like a poor move. Especially when they STILL don't have basics like ePub support fully nailed down.
IMO remarkable already have extremely stiff competition from the iPads, and the only advantage is it’s eink display. The iPad is pretty much better in every other dimension except for the eink display, but then it’s different rather than worse, since it allows for much more applications (graphics, movies, etc). I truly wish the best for remarkable and for them to start the flood of more high quality eink reader/writer devices.