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wvenable
43 days ago
I thought Microsoft had the market cornered on terrible product naming but "Googlebook" is extremely awful.
My suggestion, if they really want to go this route, is to shorten it to "gBook".
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zorked
43 days ago
I am old enough to remember that iPad was supposed to be a product-line-dooming bad name.
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cubefox
43 days ago
Everyone was expecting "iSlate", which would have been far better according to popular opinion at the time.
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dmd
43 days ago
I was expecting the Apple Palette
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bitwize
43 days ago
And just a few years before then... Wii.
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Zigurd
43 days ago
The first thing that came to mind is "What about all that gobbledygook in your Google-dee-book?"
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nerdsniper
43 days ago
I'm imagining poultry running around clucking: "gBook! gBook! gBAWK!"
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