Googlebook - Hackdot

Re:Googlebook by wvenable on Tuesday May 12, 2026 @02:25PM (#48112275)

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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Re:Googlebook by zorked on Tuesday May 12, 2026 @02:40PM (#48112459)

I am old enough to remember that iPad was supposed to be a product-line-dooming bad name.

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Re:Googlebook by cubefox on Tuesday May 12, 2026 @02:55PM (#48112698)

Everyone was expecting "iSlate", which would have been far better according to popular opinion at the time.

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Re:Googlebook by dmd on Tuesday May 12, 2026 @03:00PM (#48112787)

I was expecting the Apple Palette

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Re:Googlebook by bitwize on Tuesday May 12, 2026 @06:18PM (#48115348)

And just a few years before then... Wii.

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Re:Googlebook by Zigurd on Tuesday May 12, 2026 @02:36PM (#48112402)

The first thing that came to mind is "What about all that gobbledygook in your Google-dee-book?"

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Re:Googlebook by nerdsniper on Tuesday May 12, 2026 @02:37PM (#48112419)

I'm imagining poultry running around clucking: "gBook! gBook! gBAWK!"

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