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Originally Posted by LarryNYC
I have a hard time getting away from my computer for an hour.
The current Synch capability is fine and is better than the slow, clunky, Send functionality on the S1 that warned you not to interact with the device. Yes, you need a computer. What, you don't own one? In this age? Really, that's preposterous!
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LarryNYC I own a computer but I am not a programmer like you who is at his desk all day (and if I were, I would probably just put a stack of paper and printer in there instead of the DPT-RP1). You make a mistake by equating your daily routine to others.
I walk around campus and city to go to seminars, to teach classes. Sometimes I go to the library for hours onwards to read, sometimes I sit in the train for hours onwards to work elsewhere. I almost always leave my laptop in the office. During the day I receive documents from colleagues, journals and students. I need a direct cloud download option so that I can instantly read them, mark them and sync them to the cloud/return to sender (which the DPT-S1 does well). Carrying a laptop with me all day just to get documents on the DPT-RP1 - and to get annotated documents from the DPT-RP1 on the cloud again - is out of the question.
What's worse is that even if I am in the vicinity of a colleague's laptop, I cannot use it to get documents on the DPT-RP1 since the laptop needs to have the Digital Paper App installed (whereas with the DPT-S1 you could just use a usb cable and drag-drop in the file explorer to transfer files). So it's not just having access to laptop that's a problem, it also has to be your own laptop.
My bet is that many buyers of the DPT-RP1 do not carry their laptop with them all day, and once they figure out that 'cloud integration' of the DPT-RP1 as advertised by Sony only works with the Digital Paper as an intermediary on a Windows/Mac pc, will contemplate returning the device (if not, the lack of basic features such as navigation may lead them to do so). It at least kept some of my colleagues from buying the device.