Stop shilling, @Dutchbook. You are completely at liberty to wear your SONY shackles. Opening the platform does not force you or anyone, in any way, to install anything on the device. All it does is allow others who do have other various needs to fit the device to their workflows, as they see fit and on their terms.
I agree with @Fgdas completely. The v2 device is such a monumental disappointment, its frankly an insult. I'm dead in the water with my Linux distribution. There have been so many hostile changes to the device. There is ZERO way to get data onto or off of the device, without SONY gatekeeping you. What happens when the device crashes? No SD card! Have fun with 2 weeks downtime and paying SONY some ripoff fee to have them salvage your data. The grossest insult is the Bluetooth. Say I'm away from an internet connection and a computer, you know, in the field doing research. I'd like to share something with my colleague. Oh well, Bluetooth does not support an "airdrop" feature ... like every other damn device does. Its only there to give you a wireless sync to SONY's gatekeeper. Screensharing also worked flawlessly in S1 on Linux, since it was a Java application that would run anywhere. Now, useless. And then there are the subtle things. Consider the mandatory friction screen. I liked the fluid screen of the S1. Notice how fast your $10.00/pop nibs wear down on that friction cover? Better buy a new pack, buddy.
Or consider selecting and pasting text. This was a great workaround introduced to the v1.5 firmware in the S1. I do long hand calculations, and I need to see what was on the previous page. Flipping pages leads to errors on standard paper. For some idiotic reason, they would not implement a continuous scroll on the DPS. Okay, I can rapidly select the text and paste it to the bottom of the previous page. But now? v2 has a circled select: that's 2*pi*r vs 2\sqrt{2}r now when I select something, e.g. 2x longer. How do I get to the area select? 2 screen presses! (vs 1 in the S1.) It should be 0 because I should be able to assign that operation to the second button on the stylus, because I never use the highlighter. Now, to paste? I have to click paste, then again at some region on the screen? It doesn't register this second click well because the active pen likes to sleep when its more than 2cm from the screen! And then once its there, I have to drag and then cement it! 3x more presses! Misplace your text? Oh well, Undo was removed. Tough luck buddy, Mother SONY knows best!
This is just the tip of the iceberg with this device. All the opportunity and innovation has been squandered. I had my friend in Taiwan call the OEM for the screens years ago. The pricepoint for just the hardware screen is around $650. Selling these things at $750/pop, SONY is barely making a profit, and maybe even taking a loss. The only thing I can think of for their downright hostile behaviour to their users is that they hope to leverage access to the platform to 3rd parties for $$$. Yes, you will be whored out, just wait for it.
@Fgdas, how's this for some activity on this board?
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Originally Posted by Dutchbook
Still waiting for mine, and I won't receive it for at least the next 3 weeks. Sony has set a shipping restriction on the device without notifying their customers, so I have to go through the gray market instead. I gave up hope of getting my hands on a Sony cover though, those won't be available for at least another month.
I really miss the Sony from the 1980's/1990's...
@Fgdas: So that the user experience can become janky and convoluted? So that you can give away all your private data? So that you can install apps that aren't compatible with the device and/or are prone to crash?
No thanks, keep that crap far away from my devices please.
It's too bad further development of the DPT-RP1 software seems to be in limbo, though.
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