Well of course you are right Karl:
Access tech companies need to make a profit or good people won't invest or
work in the field; but customers are understandably frustrated by paying 3
or 4 times what sighted people pay. The best answer to this is to find a
middle man (a nonprofit like Benatech or aph or afb) to raise the money
needed to bring the price down to the level that able bodied people pay.
It's been my experience that when access tech companies try to reduce prices
to make lots more sales the strategy fails. It leads them to do silly things
like obsolete products quickly thereby forcing customers to buy the next
generation long before it's really necessary. I don't think customers
should pay for the right to beta test for an access tech company!
One of the things I really appreciate about P D H is that they don't miss
lead the customer by telling them they can buy a piece of commercial
software and run it on their PDA. You and I both know that making a
commercial dictionary like that work under CE with JFW would require a huge
investment of time and it's beyond 99% of the products users. This solution
may be expensive, but at least it's honest.
Off my soap box!
Alan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Karl Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'Braillenote List'" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2006 10:36 PM
Subject: RE: RE: [Braillenote] Dictionary
It seems to me that this arbitrary price point given with no idea what it
really costs for HW to purchase licenses, code the special Braille
interface, test the software, market and support it is a bit like figuring
that we can loose money on each sale but we'll make it up in volume.
Karl
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christopher
Hallsworth
Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2006 3:15 PM
To: Braillenote List
Subject: Re: RE: [Braillenote] Dictionary
I agree. I think the dictionary should be sold for something like $60 (I
think that's £30?). Thanks for your thoughts.
On Wed, 08 Nov 2006 16:40:21 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
I do know how hard the work is, and appreciate it. But if they
lowered the price to around $60 then more people would be willing to
purchase it as an add-on and they would actually make more money.
They would sell more copies at the $60 price than they would at the
$199 so it would in reality be more cost effective.
At the lower cost, from discussion on this list, most BN owners would
definitely purchase this option. However, at the higher cost, only
those who are able to get the government to add this will get it.
Plus, most of the government purchases would only be on new device
purchases not as add-ons. I realize there are some of us on this list
that can actually afford this if they want, but the majority cannot.
We do good just to keep up with upgrades that are not provided by the
government after the original purchase.
Cindy
----- Original Message -----
From: Richard Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wednesday, November 8, 2006 15:59
Subject: RE: [Braillenote] Dictionary
To: 'Braillenote List' <[email protected]>
> I agree that the price is rather steep since you can buy the
> software for a computer for about one sixth the cost.
> However, as it was pointed out to me, they had to do a lot of work
> to get it to accept grade 2 braille entry, work on the different
> platforms, etc.
> So, what we are paying for is the work to make it accessible on a
> portable device.
> Of course, I don't know if the software would be accessible on the
> computer with Jaws or Window-Eyes.
>
> But those who can afford it, having it on the braillenote or
> voicenote will be fantastic. If I were in college again, this would
> be great!
>
> Richard
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alex
> Parks
> Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2006 12:49 PM
> To: Braillenote List
> Subject: re: [Braillenote] Dictionary
>
> I wish you could just use an SMA count to get it. The price is
> rediculous, but I am sure HW has its reasons.
>
> Have a great day,
> Alex
>
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Christopher Hallsworth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >To: "Braillenote List" <[email protected] Date sent:
> >Wed, 08 Nov 2006 03:33:00 +0000
> >Subject: [Braillenote] Dictionary
>
> >Hi all,
> >I read on this list yesterday that the Oxford Concise English
> dictionary
> >is out. This sounds like a great product, but for $199 (Not
> sure
> what
> >that is in the UK) I am unable to afford it, since I'm getting
> my
> MPower
> >paid for by my Local Education Authority, and thus I cannot
> imagine them
> >forking out more money just to get me a dictionary. So here's my
> >suggestion. Why not, in the next build of Keysoft, include the
> >dictionary on either the flash disk or the Keysoft System Disk
> itself.
> >Just my thoughts here, but I'm thinking of those who have to
> get
> their
> >braillenotes from government organizations, and due to
> restrictions they
> >are unable to afford the dictionary. Any comments'/feedbak are
> greatly
> >appreciated. Thanks.
> >Skype name chrishallsworth7266
>
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