reMarkable Paper Pure Review: Great hardware held back by bad philosophy
Key takeaways
- There's a lot riding on re Markable's Paper Pure, a device that has to be a lot of things to a lot of people.
- I wrote the above a full week before news broke re Markable was slashing its workforce and firing CEO Phil Hess.
- reMarkable has spent the last few years building out its high end line with the Paper Pro and Move.
There's a lot riding on re Markable's Paper Pure, a device that has to be a lot of things to a lot of people. It's got to be a worthy replacement to 2020's re Markable 2, the e-paper slate that made the company a household name. It needs to be a truly mass market device, or at least as mass market as a device like this can be. And it needs to woo big businesses looking for a tool it can get into the hands of hundreds or thousands of employees.
I wrote the above a full week before news broke re Markable was slashing its workforce and firing CEO Phil Hess. According to Norway's E24, reMarkable has faced dwindling demand and rising costs thanks to the current global milieu. The Paper Pure doesn't have a lot, but in fact everything riding on its back as it makes its global debut today. Let's just hope the company's overtures toward big business don't conflict with the needs of ordinary users.
reMarkable has spent the last few years building out its high end line with the Paper Pro and Move. It's never said anything, but I get the sense both were far pricier than the company planned thanks to everything else going on right now. The flagship Paper Pro, after all, costs more than the higher-end MacBook Neo. The reMarkable Paper Pure sees the company taking what it learned from the high end and bringing it down to the rest of us.