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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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Originally Posted by HarryT
Agreed. I use the GoodReader app on my iPad to read PDFs, and it can automatically sync to a wide range of Cloud services, including Dropbox. As you say, it's a key requirement for many use cases.
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Yeah it's almost unbelievable that Sony removed cloud downloads, anybody that works in teams and has to read new documents during the day on the DPT-RP1 now has to be at his pc to get the documents on the device. Just terrible as most 'PDF readers' (academics, lawyers and so on) are actually people that work in teams and these people want to have access to documents on the device on the fly.
Imagine a lawyer that wants a quick signature from his boss on a document. He can't get a document on his boss' DPT-RP1 simply by uploading it to the firm's cloud.
Instead he needs to go to his boss, take his DPT RP1, link it to a pc with the document and Digital Paper App, then transfer the file within the app by drag-drop, and then give the device back to his boss.
Just so hard to imagine that Sony targets these kind of people with the device but completely loses out by removing cloud integration. I wonder what kind of people are in their sales / product development team.
I expect a lot of returned DPT-RP1s once people figure out that there is no cloud integration and that the device thus is very limited when it comes to teamwork.