It's just that from a social perspective, it's unlikely I'd use a reMarkable in a meeting room. No knock on the reMarkable - from all the YouTube reviews I've seen, it seems like a solid device. I ordered a reMarkable 2 earlier this year, but canceled my order because I decided that an iPad Pro (for consumption) + fountain pen/paper (for scribbling) fit my habits better. (I've owned Android devices in the past and have to admit they're objectively better in many ways - Google apps for instance are more responsive and have more features than their iOS counterparts).īut I still find myself preferring the iPhone experience because everything feels right. I watch MKBHD reviews regularly and it's not lost on me that Android phones for instance are so much more cutting edge and unrestricted relative to Apple devices. My daily driver is Linux (I've used Kubuntu for over a decade) yet I own Apple devices and am rarely bothered by things being locked down because for the most part, the constraints are tastefully picked (well based on my aesthetic they are - others may disagree). I have a sense that "lack of restrictiveness" is not something most users prioritize, as witnessed by Apple's phenomenal success. The glossy pictures are visually impactful and do matter to most people: it's not even the subject but the production values, which communicate either downmarket or premium. Certain cognitive styles are over-represented in the HN comments section which, from my empirical observations, do not match that of the broader population. I've half a foot in the consumer space and my intuition is that if consumer product marketing targeted their strategies at the HN crowd, they will likely have a small market share. I think you hit on a good reflection there. In fact, it wouldn't even be the first product introduced this way to numerous non-technical people I know (who now own one).Īnd even if I'm mistaken and none of this matters, well, after all a sale is a sale. I mean, this thread here is the first time I've ever heard about them, so I'll probably be the first guy in the office that gets the tablet, and then if I'll like it some people who don't read HN will hear an endorsement. And given they don't have such a remarkable brand-recognition, it actually makes it kinda more likely that they are selling it to us, whether they like it or not. We likely would be if they actually had customer base Apple has, but they surely don't. After all, are we "such a small user-base" that it doesn't matter? Maybe, but I don't know. But I seriously don't want to dismiss this thought. ![]() That's why I'm saying I'm not sure about the average customer, so I'm not feeling comfortable assuming people responsible for sales strategy (who are obviously professional marketers) are bad at their job.
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