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Originally Posted by salamanderjuice
The iPad has lower latency. Plus most of the note taking apps support some sort of cloud backup.
On the eInk side the Boox devices aren't too far behind either and you don't need to pay $8 a month to sync your notes on Dropbox or Google Drive. All my notes are automatically synced to Dropbox on my Boox Note Air.
The ePub reader of the remarkable is also not very remarkable compared to Kobo or Boox.
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You are right about the writing latency for the iPad but my reply was about eink devices. I used Nebo on the iPad (also the underlying note taking technology for the Kobo Elipsa) and sync to GDrive and I agree, it is pretty nice. I definitely miss the rM2 for its display, the excellent writing experience, the excellent sync experience - if not for the storage limitations, I would never have gotten rid of it but I have a lot of ebooks and I like to have them with me without depending on the cloud. If there is a rM3 that offers at least 32GB of expandable storage, you can rest assured I will be back in line to purchase it.
Also, the $8/month is not required to use the cloud though there are limitations for such users. There is also a rmfakecloud package that many users use to sync data to their own storage. It really is a nice hackable and open device and I value that a lot.
As for the Boox etc. not being far behind, I don't know what to say - every ms matters to avoid distractions for serious note taking and I will again say that the rM2 excels here; if you don't care about note taking and don't do it enough, then probably the boox is fine for you. I also have a Kobo Elipsa and its writing experience compared to the rM2 is not even close. If you value owning a thing that is about focus and does the things that it promises to do well, note taking in the case of the rM2, then there is no substitute for the rM2 imo.
I personally will never own a Boox given that they continue to violate the GPL license but it's a mostly free world so I guess we respectively spend our money in a manner that is reasonable to us. Hopefully you can root your device or see how Boox etc. handle your data; the rM2 offers root/ssh access and has no requirement to use the cloud so for corporate and privacy-conscious users, it offers a safer experience.
I hear people complain about the ereader experience on the rM2 but I've never had any complaints in this regard. Further, there are open source updates in place by volunteers that bring in Plato or KOReader to the device if one desires.