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Originally Posted by Cootey
When I attended writers conferences over the past few years, reMarkable had lots of buzz. If the one trick that pony offers targets a niche, that niche will be thrilled. Nobody buzzes about the Kobo Elipsa in those author circles. Kobo has its work cut out for it.
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Sheer hype as it's got to be almost the worst 10.3″ note taking tablet on the market, if not the worst. I'd not even call it an ereader as it doesn't ebooks or ebook metadata. It's an eink sketch pad and PDF viewer (with scribbling) that only connects via networking. It doesn't have storage expansion and only 6 GByte on board.
The adverts sound like desperation, especially on a dying platform.
Amazon Kindle, not reMarkable, and maybe Boox and Pocketbook are the Kobo competition. The reMarkable is doomed (Company) unless there is a new model with USB MTP or Mass Storage and either SD card slot or 64 G Byte on board, metadata support, native epub and on device handwriting conversion. I think it was only people's reaction to the "cloud" service of the reMarkable that was of interest to Kobo, and actually without the "reMarkable Cloud" the reMarkable eink Tablet is pretty useless. More so than the Kindle Scribe without Amazon's Cloud. They didn't mention it because Amazon is the only serious competitor to Kobo.