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Re:ReMarkable 2.0 – A digital notebook that feels like paper by Red_Leaves_Flyy on Friday August 28, 2020 @11:04AM (#24305724)
Marketing in its current virulent incarnation is a scam, and front for wholesale population level surveillance. I've yet to see a convincing argument to the contrary.

All a business needs to be successful is a good product, and word of mouth. Advertising gets people to buy stuff they don't need. Instead companies scrimp on the product and spend more on advertising. The sooner society finds a way to clothe, house and feed everyone the better all of us and our planet will be.

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Re:ReMarkable 2.0 – A digital notebook that feels like paper by nick_kline on Saturday August 29, 2020 @03:12AM (#24314307)
That seems naive. Very few products succeed without marketing. Only tesla, for example, in autos succeeds without much marketing. I'd never have heard about remarkable2 without current marketing around the v2.
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