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Originally Posted by ManDay
"A heart for Sony"? If it weren't for your tone of voice I'd be inclined to take this as fairly good, sarcastic joke.
In my statements, there is no heart nor lack there of involved. I consistute: The DPT RP1 has objectively superior hardware, has objectively inferior software, and is objectively unfit for the job that its predecessor fulfilled for me and many others, almost excellently.
As a table mat, the RP1 is also magical. You think I'm being polemic? I probably am, given that I perceive what I consider a willful effort of ingnorance in your argumentation. Speaking for those who are unsatisfied with the product: we know what we need, we know what we pay, and we know what we expect. I do not comprehend your intention to "defend" the RP1 against those who criticise it, by belittling their requirements, or worse, implying their reluctance to problem-solving ("why don't you get a MacBook Air [you lazy ...]").
I have no emotional issue involved with the perceived insufficiencies of the RP1. What annoys me, though, is your denying other people's right to be unsatisfied with the product and utter their complaints, in the manner that we entitle you to your opinion and to being satisfied with what you bought.
All this is made worse by your generalising ("very few people don't have Windows or OS X [always around]") and condescending ("leave off your moody brooding about Linux", "you could solve your problems") attitude, and overall lack of knowledge ("Sony has to maintain [the webbrowser]", which is based on WebkitQT and required no to negligible maintanance on Sony's side).
I've nothing else to add w.r.t. the way in which you're treating other people's different opinions in this discussion, other than if anyone is supposedly trying to make PR like you insinuated about a fellow member further up, it should be you. For I can not think of any other reason that you would have for such acting.
As for the RP1, but I already said that, I will be happy with the device if Sony returns at least proper navigation tools, autonomous internet access and backed storage (WebDAV, SMB or similar) and probably some of the very useful annotation features that seem to have been removed, too. For the time being, the RP1 seems overpriced and much inferior to the S1 for people like me, since the overall workflow has deteriorated despite the major improvements to the hardware.
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Far be it for me to deny anyone the right to be dissatisfied or to voice their opinions about what they see as the shortcomings of the device. I have only tried to point out that there are relatively simple ways to solve your problems and that the device is not as bad as you make it out to be, from my experience using one for the last four days.
Perhaps Sony achieved some of the performance improvements in the RP1 by writing an operating system from scratch or using something else, instead of relying on Android, a system that comes with many problems, and was probably a source of some of the sluggishness seen on the S1.
Since I don't believe you're a member of the Sony development team, I don't think you actually know what it would take to maintain the old code base.
I don't find the new software to be that much different than the old software, to be honest. I'm all synced up to my Box.com folders through the Digital Paper App. The new "Print - Send to Digital Paper" option is far easier than moving files into Box or Dropbox. Also, I'd rather have the new Synch capability than having to do the old clunky Send process. If you were a fan of the old web browser then I guess you have a lot more patience than I do.
You have the S1 to tide you other until we see what new features are added into the RP1.
For someone who claims to have no emotional issue with regards to the RP1, you seem to talk about your happiness a lot. When are all users ever made happy by the release of any hardware or software product? Never, back to Lincoln. Your brooding was a reference to James Joyce, did you pick up on that one? ;-)
Sometimes progress can only be made by angering users and removing features that perform poorly or don't fit the nature of the device. Of course you don't agree, that's fine, I don't expect you to. I think the software is cleaner and more streamlined, and easier to use than the software on the S1.