Hey all.
I own a Remarkable 2 and I love it. It has changed the way I work in a lot of ways. However, I want everyone to be aware of the support experience I had if they are considering buying it.
The hardware has been pretty flawless. The tablet just works. Battery life, responsiveness, etc, has all been awesome.
Unfortunately, one of the reasons I bought it is for live screensharing during virtual whiteboarding sessions. No matter what I try, the desktop app crashes as soon as I try to write or draw on the tablet while in screenshare mode.
I contacted support, and that is where my Remarkable experience completely fell apart.
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Support started with an initial online chat, where they walked me through basic troubleshooting steps available on the website, which I had already tried. When that didnt work, my ticket got escalated and I received a ticket number and an email.
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The email support had me repeating answers to all of the same questions the first support person asked me.
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In between each correspondence, a different person answered. So there was constant missing context and re-explaining of the issue
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They refused to do any sort of live conversation or screenshare to demonstrate the very repeatable issue.
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Their conclusion after basic troubleshooting (re-install the desktop app, make sure windows is up to date) was for me to patiently wait for version 3.7 of the desktop app, with no timeline.
The remarkable is a professional device that I use for my independent consulting business. Unfortunately, they have zero interest in actual support. I am sure their team is not super large, but this level of support is very disappointing.
If anyone has had crashing on a PC during screenshare and was able to fix it, please let me know.
You know, I kind of laugh because I liken the Remarkable to the computer on the Apollo 13 space mission. Just seems pretty minimal, I know it’s a *nix OS, but just feels like it’s pretty doggone tight and limited all around. I’ve only experienced one crash, and I do use custom templates, but no custom code. Anyway, I get it, and I love it.
When I need to screen-share the tablet’s screen, I run goMarkableStream on the tablet, view the screen using a browser, and screen-share that browser window.
Doesn’t involve the cloud at all - doesn’t even require a cloud subscription.