Comments on: Quick Review: Pogo Stylus

By: ML

ML — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 14:32:37 +0000

It may not for apply for some of the previous posters, but a stylus is great for us gals with long fingernails. The side of my finger works fine for most stuff on the iPhone, but is not so great when trying to play fast-paced touch games.

If may seem like a dumb idea to some people, but obviously they saw a need and filled it. (No, mine is not attached to the side of my iPhone; I just pull it out of my purse when I want to play games or draw.)

By: LOL

LOL — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 03:39:30 +0000

And wowsers 15 bucks! I hope your financial model doesn’t include a high degree of leverage, as you know we are in a recession!

By: LOL

LOL — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 03:36:15 +0000

Why???? I respect entrepreneurial creativity, i.e. Steve Jobs, i guess this makes you Anti-steve jobs, simply because he works towards simplifying, you work towards complicating, though still entrepreneurial. You created a new word ENTREPREURIAL-PERPLEX-COMPLEXITY. Simply because I’m amazingly perplexed by your entrepreneurial complexity!

By: Sean peters

Sean peters — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 23:49:09 +0000

Although I agree with a couple of the observations (strapping the thing to the side of the iPhone is kludgy, and the only reason to even have a stylus is if it offers more precise pointing than your finger), I can definitely see a use for a good stylus. My finger is a pretty blunt instrument (as evidenced by the vast numbers of corrections I’ve already had to make to this post) and a stylus would help both in selecting tiny menu buttons and in drawing apps. But this stylus also looks pretty blunt, and with no internal place to store the stylus, it’s pretty much a lost cause.

By: pez

pez — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 23:35:53 +0000

I usually don’t post responses, but I just had to in this case. This has to be one of the dumbest things I’ve ever seen. I agree with an earlier poster – if you have a finger, use it. Using a stylus on an iPhone is no different than using a fork to eat potato chips, or using a pencil to punch the buttons on your tv remote, or using a pair of pliers to open a drawer, and the list goes on. Why make things more complicated than they need be? Sure, there are maybe one or two times when a stylus might help a little, but carrying it around on the side of your iPhone, or even in your pocket is nothing but an inconvenience. Picking up a piece of trash that I might happen upon might be easier if I had one of those claw extension type things, but I’m not going to carry the thing around with me – I’ll just bend over and pick it up. Pretty much the same applies to this thing. Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for innovation, but it doesn’t get any sillier than this.

By: Ana

Ana — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 20:39:14 +0000

actually this could be very useful for people that live in cold areas but we have no need for this in SO CAL.

By: Ana

Ana — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 20:35:23 +0000

This is probably the only appropriate time to say this but this is "sooo last year" or for the stylus case so 4 yrs ago ^_^. Last time I think i saw someone use a stylus was when i was in high school...not even kidding.

Also the clip looks a little ugly and funny :/. I use both my thumbs to compose a text/note/email and can do it fairly quickly and from with the pogo stylus um well seems painfully slow..

By: Raphael

Raphael — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 20:25:37 +0000

This could come handy when you wear gloves or mittens. I know Apple has the special gloves for iPhone, but in case you don’t have them, this is a viable alternative.

By: iBamse

iBamse — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 20:06:43 +0000

Fugly!

By: WatersWest

WatersWest — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 19:36:04 +0000

No. No. No. Never.