Josh. Firstly, you have sent seven messages pretty much saying the same thing in the space of half an hour. I think we’ve established that there are too many games to simply port everything over. If Apple listen to blind iOS gamers then Marty will hopefully be continuing. Otherwise there will be no further updates. Simple as that. That is as far and as wide as it goes and we all have to respect whatever happens as a result of this. Secondly. I don’t think I have ever seen any application, let alone an accessible game, that is sold under an open-source licence. While I’m sure it is theoretically possible (I believe the GPL allows you to sell your product as open source, though I’m not altogether sure of the legalities), it would be open to all kinds of abuse. Abuse, I might add, that an independent accessible games developer on a small budget or income won’t be able to satisfactorily resolve. Cheers. Damien.
From: Josh Kennedy Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2017 3:13 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [blind-gamers] No more Blindfold Games or Updates open source the games so blind android devs can port them to the google play store. thanks. On 11/9/2017 10:10, Arianna Sepulveda wrote: Marty, I just finished reading your blog post on this issue, and to me, Apple's new rules about apps don't make sense. Don't all apps vary in audio, video, or text in one way or another? I'll be calling Apple tomorrow on my day off about this. They're being unfair not only to us, your loyal user base, but to you, a very awesome app developer, and I'm going to make sure they know that. Thamks, Ari On Nov 8, 2017, at 3:34 PM, Marty Schultz <[email protected]> wrote: I just finished talking with an Apple representative, and Apple’s decision is that unless I merge the 80 Blindfold Games into a handful of apps, they will no longer allow new games to be released or allow updates to be make. From a technology perspective, that’s extremely hard and time-consuming. From a business perspective, that would mean spending hundreds of hours recoding the games, with no possible return-on-investment. Most of the games generate sales in the first three months of the game being released, and I’ve been building these games for 4 years. From a usability perspective, that means the main menus would be ridiculously complex, and the settings screens would be confusing and almost unusable. If you are unhappy with this decision, you can express your opinion to Apple. The accessibility desk is at [email protected] or you can call 1-800-MY-APPLE. Thanks to everyone for enjoying my games. -- sent with mozilla thunderbird
