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Originally Posted by juegos
The worst decision of Sony is no direct download option from cloud services such as Dropbox. This will make the device unattractive to many academics - it scared most of my colleagues away that knew about the device.
I sometimes get more than 50 papers in PDF during the day from students, people in my team are uploading new documents to our common Dropbox folder all the time, and the only way to get these on the DPT RP1 is:
(1) starting your PC,
(2) starting the Digital Paper app on your PC and connect PC to DPT RP1 over wifi (local LAN)/bluetooth/USB
(3) drag and drop files within the app from the PC to the DPT-RP1.
Terrible for productivity and it means you have to carry your PC with you all the time if you want new documents on your DPT RP1.
What you want is the device - using WiFi or whatever - automatically download new documents when they are uploaded to certain folders in the cloud. The worst thing is that the predecessor to the DPT-RP1 (the S1) actually had this option, but Sony removed it.
The reMarkable tablet (10.3 in size) that's coming out in August at least does seem to have that cloud integration - much better for academics and people what work in teams generally.
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I'd be careful with reMarkable, I don't think they've ever shipped a product and I believe they were involved in previous failed campaign, if I recall correctly. Plus, the size of the thing is a non-starter for me, it's just the wrong size. I also think that the handwriting exhibits a lot of lag, from what I see with my eyes when looking at their videos.
So, are you saying that you'll never be close enough to your computer at any time during the day to get documents synched up with the RP1? Lucky you! I have a hard time getting away from my computer for an hour.
There is only one constant with regards to the creation of hardware and software products. Build it and people will complain. I knew programmers at big companies who never wrote any code and their lives were easy, nobody ever complained about their work. On the other hand, I knew programmers who had almost singlehandedly written complete products, and they were hounded to death by complaints about their code.