Editing The Pen Addict 10/transcript (section)

== Paper Mate Replay Max ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' I saw... We've spoken about the Friction before. Did Pilot make the Friction? Yes. I saw a Paper Mate Replay Max today. So I thought, you know, I know that some people like the Friction. And so I thought, I'll give this one a try. It's horrible. Right? It's so bad.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I don't think I've tried that one. I can't remember.

'''Myke Hurley:''' There is just no consistency to the ink distribution.

'''Myke Hurley:''' The lines are just so peculiar. It just doesn't seem to be... Sometimes it feels like the pen's just not working. Yeah. And the eraser is worse than the Friction. Yeah. You can still see the line.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I know. I've tried a couple other erasable pens that, you know, ever since the Friction came out. Uniball came out with two different ones. They actually came out with a Signor Erasable. And then with an actual rubber eraser, then they came out with the Uniball Phantom, which is a friction-based one. Like the Friction, nothing's in the same category as the Friction. No one's caught up to that one yet that I've seen.

'''Myke Hurley:''' And even that, we're not big fans of.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. I mean, I like it in small doses. I use them every now and then because they write well. You know, I have a hard time getting used to the light ink color. You know, the raceability works fine. It works well. People love those pens. They love the Friction. That's a huge, huge seller.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' That is a big, big-time seller.

'''Myke Hurley:''' A lot of our listeners, I know, say that they like that pen.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Mm-hmm.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Mm-hmm. Which is fine, but it's just not for me. Yeah. And the last pen that I picked up was kind of like a – it was on the point of sale at the checkout, so I picked it up and checked it out. And it's a Stabilo Smart Ball, which is like a part rollerball 0.5, and it's got like a stylus conductor at the end. Mm-hmm. So it's a little rubber conductor, which is actually passable as a stylus. I mean, we might talk about it a little bit more next week. Okay. But I've been using it, and it's been fine. I mean, it's not as good as my beloved Cosmonaut, but the rubber tip is actually – it's better than some of the foam tips that were around maybe when styluses sort of came onto the scene for the iPad. Sometimes it can take a couple of taps to get it to recognize something, but on the whole, it's actually quite passable for somebody who maybe wants to have a pen and stylus combination around. You know, at all times, like let's say you're like an artist or you take notes on your iPad or something, then it is actually a system you could want to use.