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Originally Posted by LarryNYC
I know you don't want to change your habit of not carrying around a laptop, but, we do indeed have the most amazing, small, lightweight laptops ever created, and ones that are a joy to use.
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I think even Sony wouldn't go that far in defending their own product. There's no one who's going to buy a small laptop just to carry around with the DPT-RP1 to get documents on it.
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Originally Posted by LarryNYC
Sony seemed to figure out that the device would not be successful when aimed at a narrow niche, such as just lawyers.
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The predecessor DPT-S1 with internet access, browser, cloud download / sync option, drag-and-drop file transfer, was suitable for a much broader niche than the DPT-RP1. The latter now requires the Digital Paper App on a Windows/Mac pc, installed as a network driver in conjunction with a Sony certificate to enhance security (hence why people have trouble installing it). You can't even drag and drop files anymore from and to the device in the file explorer. Hence it is now a totally locked down device more in line with needs of very specific niches (particularly I can imagine law firms and certain branches of government).
Furthermore, if they wanted to broaden their niche they'd have developed basic features such as navigation features instead of devoting their resources to the Digital Paper App.
To me as an academic, despite the hardware improvements, the DPT-RP1 is a big step back.