Like I said, for some people it's not an advantage. They want something that is about as "dumb" as a stack of papers and so the iPad is not even an option.
But once you get into people who tinker and want to add features and integrations, like I imagine many PineNote owners might skew, well the iPad does that a lot better.
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It's also just a generally snappier device. In theory being barebones should make the Remarkable faster, but between the limitations of eInk and the low power hardware (which yes, I realize come with some great benefits) picking up the iPad for a quick thought always ended up feeling more fluid.
Also while the Remarkable is better in daylight the current iPads are much more usable than used to be. Meanwhile the iPad is useable in little-to-no light but not the Remarkable.
(side note on screens: pen feel is also a little oversold imo. A random matte screen protector made my $20 Apple Pencil knock off feel 9 tenths as the $99 stylus I got for the Remarkable and improves daylight performance too.
The 1 tenth is down to personal preference, I'd say the iPad felt like a nice pen, the Remarkable like a nice pencil.)
This seems right to me. I had an iPad Pro and it was kinda meh. Basically just collected dust. Got a remarkable 2 and basically use it every day for note taking and sharing between it and my computer. Annotate PDFs, make drawings like in a notebook. It’s so lightweight and hassle free, battery lasts ages, super easy to have alongside my MacBook to get stuff done. I’m super happy with it, haven’t touched my iPad Pro since I got it.
The only thing I would like on there remarkable, which seems to be more of an eink limitation, is the ability to create multiple colored highlights. I find myself drawing a lot of graphs and often need the ability to create different lines that can be distinguished when the graphs get complicated.
But other than that, remarkable has been basically a dream as a replacement for pen and paper (which I didn’t use that often anyways).
Thanks, you just confirmed to me that I want a Remarkable. This looks like it was written by future me.
I need a no-hassle, no-distraction, no-fiddling paper-on-steroids replacement. An iPad just seems like it is too much for this. I like that the Remarkable is "limited" in this respect.
Like I said, for some people it's not an advantage. They want something that is about as "dumb" as a stack of papers and so the iPad is not even an option.
But once you get into people who tinker and want to add features and integrations, like I imagine many PineNote owners might skew, well the iPad does that a lot better.
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It's also just a generally snappier device. In theory being barebones should make the Remarkable faster, but between the limitations of eInk and the low power hardware (which yes, I realize come with some great benefits) picking up the iPad for a quick thought always ended up feeling more fluid.
Also while the Remarkable is better in daylight the current iPads are much more usable than used to be. Meanwhile the iPad is useable in little-to-no light but not the Remarkable.
(side note on screens: pen feel is also a little oversold imo. A random matte screen protector made my $20 Apple Pencil knock off feel 9 tenths as the $99 stylus I got for the Remarkable and improves daylight performance too.
The 1 tenth is down to personal preference, I'd say the iPad felt like a nice pen, the Remarkable like a nice pencil.)
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