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The marketing laws in Norway are pretty strict, so doing side-by-side comparisons I'm not sure if is something we can do.

I have some videos of myself when we first got the livesync to work last summer, but I'll have to discuss if I can post them publicly. The issue is that we don't want to show functionality we can't deliver, and there's some other really neat functionality visible that we might not have the time and resources to include in the initial release. It's also on a much earlier prototype, so we might have to film something new for it to be representative of the device.

But tbh. it is mostly something I want to do personally for street cred, the pre-orders are going way, way better than intended already.

And lastly, only the people in the intro and outro are actors, I'm sure my co-workers will take it as a compliment that people confuse them with professional actors. :-)

the templates you see are so far just png files, and we have a couple of different types (like graphing paper). And yes, you can erase the lines you draw, or undo, etc..

The pen is stored in the cover (the "Folio").

I'm interested in your product and would like to subscribe to your newsletter. Pls do the needful.

The device in the videos is an actual prototype, an engineering verification sample from our ODM. And all the apps are real, functional apps.

There's no CGI in the product movie, we don't want to show anything we can't deliver.

We are already well into the process with our ODM, so a Chinese company can't really get it to market faster either.

And because a lot of the solution we have to the latency issue is in software, they can't really duplicate it until we release the device with the software so they can get their hands on it and reverse engineer it. :-)

(And yes, I have already seen attempts at getting access to places where we could have put our source code, luckily nothing I'm not prepared for.)

Thank you. The live syncing cost me a fair amount of sweat to get finished for filming.

We decided early on to not fake anything we show, so no CGI in the product video for example. So I had to implement fully functional apps on all platforms (we now have apps for windows, macos, linux, android and ios), and at the same time fixing wifi drivers and whatnot on the device, to get a couple of seconds of video. So it is nice to see it appreciated.

Well, the reason I joined as a CTO was to make sure that when I got one myself it wouldn't be terrible. So I swear on my honor that it won't be terrible, if that calms your mind. :-)

Thank you!

I plan on making it pretty open (ssh access over usb) and release the toolchain etc. that I use, but we don't have the resources to officially support third-party applications.

The OS itself is pretty standard Linux distro, but I might end up just using Debian. I also plan to try to mainline as many of the drivers we use as possible.

One of the issues I personally want to solve is the lack of a hackable e-paper device.

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