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Joern Puetz — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 01:09:41 -0000

Sounds good to me.
I like the new screen technology, thats very innovative!

Joern

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rosevibe — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 11:07:20 -0000

Paper books will never die - well, not until it's decided we need to ditch 'em for the sake of the environment..

E-books are great for travelling, less to lug about etc, but you can't beat the feeling of getting all warm and comfy and turning the pages of a good novel..

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Greyhawk — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 08:39:30 -0000

Lol, shall I say "owned"?

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Robert Scoble — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 22:01:56 -0000

Catcher: this entire post is an April Fools Joke.

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catcher — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 21:19:27 -0000

Sorry iReader is a product for a company called syntactica (http://www.syntactica.com).

They have used this name since it's creation and the domain name since 1994.

Go a head, type http://www.ireader.com and see what returns.

Here we go again Apple using someone elses name for their own needs and apparantly with no consideration.

No it is not hardware, it is software, and pretty decent at what it is designed to do.

It's a very small company, so I guess big bad APPL could just squash them. Either by acquisition then squash their tech, or sick their man y lawyers after them and make it too costly to challenge.

If you have not used the product, give it a try before you slam it or rant some Apple Zealot thread.

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Joel Toe — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 08:45:56 -0000

I don't believe it. It must be a joke.

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Lena West — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 12:56:07 -0000

I got owned by this. I even told other people and had a philosophical debate about the merits and consequences of such technology.

Chris Carfi just told me it was an April Fool's joke. But, seriously, I want this product. I'm bummed.

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Christopher Coulter — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 11:57:11 -0000

George Plimpton and Sid Finch

Ain't that the truth...spin a yarn worthy of an Academy, but it's Sidd, amazing how it took, but 168 mph was pushing all reason. I think the Taco Liberty Bell, Nixon for President, the Left-Handed Whopper, stand out, but then Webnode takes the cake, of course basically the dot.com 1997-2004 era was one April Fools after another.

And who can forget John Dvorak's 'Drunk Driving on the Net' bit, that one took...

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Alfred Thompson — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 10:22:58 -0000

I saw through it when I saw the words "Apple is collaborating." :-)

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Roberta — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 23:13:11 -0000

So much for your week-off pledge. Pathetic.

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Steve — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 21:39:27 -0000

Brother!!! What feeble attempts both this and the Google thing were. Where is George Plimpton and Sid Finch when you need them?

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Phil Butler — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 19:22:46 -0000

Great to see your words again Robert! I just wish Apple (and all the rest) would come out with something that does everything for like $25,000. We could save some time and maybe get a deal :)

Always,
Phil

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flic — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 19:17:38 -0000

Thanks Linda, Jodi, et al. for mentioning the Kathy Sierra POLL!

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scott hodson — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 18:41:56 -0000

You had me going until you rattled off product pricing, argh SCOBLE!

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Kamal Jain — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 18:33:46 -0000

Very Good Robert! Quite creative and well written until the very end.

Regarding your resolution to not post, you made it and you break it. We are glad you are back with your writings. But remember that you lost some credibility if you make a similar resolution again in future. A better way would have been pre-plan. I know it is hard but you could have said in your resolution as no more blogging for the rest of the week or no more blogging for the rest of the month (and post it few hour late) or something of that sort. As you always say -- it is always better to under promise and over deliver rather than the other way round.

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Coll B. Lue — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 17:45:33 -0000

This is absolutely good and exciting news. iPhones sound fab-tastic, can't wait to see it on the market - woo hoo, iPhones, great news.

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David Amodt — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 17:27:26 -0000

damn you scoble... was getting excited there...

no fair.. apple rumor hoax on april fools day

any news on the apple/emi press conference tomorrow announcing non drm EMI music?

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John C. Welch — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 17:04:50 -0000

LMAO..oh dear lord, now Scoble posts a couple days early and people are all in a snit because it was an April Fool's joke?

Yeesh.

Dude, that was brilliant, but I think you shoulda gotten someone to fake a "long range" pic or something.

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Dean Johnson — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 16:54:30 -0000

An iReader? This sounds an awful lot like a Newton MessagePad.

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Ernesto Priego — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 16:48:29 -0000

This is an example of why the Internet is so discredited as an accountable source of information. (And, on a side note, some people's unawareness that the world has more than just one time zone is equally appalling).

This is, also, why paper books will never be dead: as long as the information that keeps being distributed on the Internet keeps being in this tone, I don't see much competition for printed sources. Gutenberg 4; Tim Berners-Lee, 1.

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Cslicer — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 14:06:05 -0000

I am glad to see Apple pushing the envelope into the arena of unnecessary items.. "I've got to have this or I will bust" mentality. When business people get together and try to find a cure for cancer or make life easier to deal with your pain, they stick the neck out & their pocketbooks as well.

Leave it to Apple to make an MP3 player keyring into a $400 item.

Maybe the Emperor really does have clothes !

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Michael Markman (Mickeleh) — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 13:17:06 -0000

@51. Not necessarily. Just cause folks play along, doesn't mean they don't know what's what. IMHO it's much more in the spirit of the day to perpetuate a fraud than to proclaim you're smart enough not to be fooled. I have a longer rant about this on my blog.

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toni — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 12:59:46 -0000

This is REALLY a cruel joke :( . Please Apple start developing something like this!!!

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Robert Scoble — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 12:51:33 -0000

Dave #83: actually the "tiny balls" is one of the most accurate things in this post. That's precisely how the screen in the Sony Reader works!

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polyGeek — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 12:00:46 -0000

Since Amazon almost always screws up and releases product information prematurely I'm sure they will have a purchase page for this April Fools iReader by noon today. :-)

You know when you lost me? When you mentioned that you found an Apple Exec on the beach with the device. If this were a true story Steve Jobs would have had a CSI team at every Execs house who had the device so that he could determine who leaked.