There is a lot of falsehood going around as far as android goes.
Yes, it has its problems. So does apple – especially with this new iOS 11
build. Victor is on the eyes free list addressing the list at large and is part
of the talkback team, so android is climbing up the ladder and I’d say these
days is on very equal ground with apple.
And, Charles, all someone has to do is make in app purchases. Make the game
itself something like 10, 15 dollars. It does, after all contain 80 games (or
adjust the price accordingly when different packs are released, e.g. blindfold
cards).
This is just my thoughts, though. Apparently I’m in the minority on this.
We should at the very least be trying to find a compromise rather than throwing
blame everywhere.
From: Charles Rivard
Sent: November 9, 2017 9:28 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [blind-gamers] No more Blindfold Games or Updates
I base what I’ve said on what game developers, who I figure have researched to
find the best market for their apps, have found.
If you think you're finished, you! really! are! finished!!
From: Josh Kennedy
Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2017 8:57 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [blind-gamers] No more Blindfold Games or Updates
are you sure about that? because the eyes-free android list has huge amounts of list traffic on it from many different people, all blind, all using android, all using talkback or some variation of talkback. Are you on the eyes-free list? android is excellent and getting better all the time. Whoever told you android is a tiny market has misinformed you unfortunately I think. It's true back in 2009 through 2012 android was still getting its footing so to speak. But now android and IOS are quite close as far as their accessibility features. As of the latest talkback beta, talkback can label buttons automatically for you most of the time. It has verbosity options similar to jaws, different reading modes like those in voiceover, and very good web support. With the latest brailleback app we now have grade2 braille input. If blindfold games were open sourced, other developers could help the main developer work on the android versions. and talkback also works good with my RCA galileo pro android 6.0 tablet with physical keyboard, thanks to talkbacks many customiseable keyboard shortcuts.
On 11/9/2017 05:25, john wrote:
Josh:
It almost certainly would not be worth it. In the blind community, it seems
that Android is actually only used by a small, if very loyal, group of people.
I'll say this platform loyalty transfers into double sales, but even so,
5%*2=10% of original sales figures. That's not worth it.
From: Josh Kennedy
Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2017 22:29
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [blind-gamers] No more Blindfold Games or Updates
yes it would take time. but would be worth it i think.
On 11/8/2017 21:49, Liam Erven wrote:
Josh. You realize all of his games would have to be rewritten from the ground
up right?
It’s not exactly a rainy day project.
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From: Josh Kennedy
Sent: Wednesday, November 8, 2017 8:46 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [blind-gamers] No more Blindfold Games or Updates
just switch to google play store so we android users can have more games please. thanks. and a new talkback just came out recently 6.0 beta. it works very good.
On 11/8/2017 20:37, Liam Erven wrote:
It’s unfortunate, but I’ve talked to some other developpers who have had the
same issues.
Mainly developpers who are designing apps as 3rd parties get hit by this.
I will certainly write and Call Apple though. Maybe enough people can give you
some sort of free pass, though I doubt it.
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From: Joe Quinn
Sent: Wednesday, November 8, 2017 7:28 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [blind-gamers] No more Blindfold Games or Updates
What does this mean for the end-user? Will we still be able to do in app purchases?
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On Nov 8, 2017, at 5:34 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.
