Hi all, firstly this thread has been somewhat complicated because it has diverged into the topic of whether you can get a virus on a BrailleNote. The answer to that is quite simple. You can't, as the message a list member forwarded from Dean yesterday explains in detail.
regarding the SDK, as those of you who've been on this list a while will recall, earlier this year I put out a call for expressions of interest from developers who would work with an SDK, so we could enter into some dialogue with them about applications and the extent of an SDK. We may well still make something available, but frankly, what this exercise showed me was that a lot of the clammer for an SDK is coming from users who are not developers. What people are really saying is that they want the BrailleNote to do more, and an SDK is the perceived solution. For this large group, the SDK is the means, but not the ends. The end is more functionality. As you will know, we have substantially increased the resourcing on the BrailleNote in the last 18 months or so. The growth has been phenomenal. Since March of 2004, we've completely rewritten the Planner, introduced BrailleNote PK with a raft of new functionality, upgraded the operating system in the Classic units and introduced wireless, introduced BrailleNote mPower with all its new features such as streaming, audio recording etc. So you can see that the growth really has been significant, even though many of these projects have involved a lot of things taking place under the hood. The operating system upgrade process is complex, and obviously, designing and building a brand new piece of hardware is a major task. Now that a lot of those infrastructural type projects are out of the way, you will see even more and rapid improvement in the actual functionality of KeySoft. KeySoft 7 promises to be our most exciting release ever. Some of the things you say you want the BrailleNote to do are actively under development now. Does this mean that we're not going to do an SDK? Not at all, it's still under consideration. But for the majority of our users, what they want is for the BrailleNote family to do more things for them, and that's our focus in everything we do. Jonathan Mosen BrailleNote Product Marketing Manager HumanWare DDI: +1-925-566-9265 http://www.humanware.com
