Congratulations Jane. Tell us about your little one. Is it a boy or is it a girl?
Terry Powers -----Original Message----- From: Jane Jordan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2004 6:10 PM To: Braillenote List Subject: Re: [Braillenote] Bn and me: Hi, folks. I've just ogtten home from the hospital. I was very glad to receive the news about the PK unit and the upgrade for the Braillenote that I already have. Unfortnately, being half with it and trying to care for a fussy baby (first one!) I managed to lose all my emails <pout>. Can someone please re-send me the emails containing the announcements about the pk unit and the upgrade for those of us with our BrailleNotes that we have now? Thanks a lot. Jane ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jonathan Mosen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Braillenote List" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2004 7:35 AM Subject: Re: [Braillenote] Bn and me: > Hi mary-Ellen. > > Audio streaming doesn't have anything to do with hardware. In one single > release, KeySoft 6.1, we're going to roll out a huge chunk of > functionality that meets the vast majority of user requests, but we have > to stop somewhere because we want to get the release out. The good news of > course is that by moving to Windows CE 4, all these things are much easier > for us to add. It puts the foundations in place for streaming. It was only > a few weeks ago that I saw people on this list saying that an upgrade like > this one would require new hardware and how expensive it would be. > Instead, we've confounded the critics by offering this big change, at most > for US$399 and a lot less if you have an SMA. Frankly I'm not ashamed to > say that is one heck of an amazing deal. Before you go to the competition, > you should find out how many hardware upgrades *they have offered their > customers, but I will give you a clue, the number starts and ends with 0. > They have instead required people to buy a new unit with a trade-in option > only about six months after the first hardware shipped. The blind > community often finds it hard to find the money for these things, so I > think you have the right to expect that the assistive technology > manufacturers will do as much as they can before reverting to costly > hardware upgrades or complete unit replacements. I can tell you this > though. The BrailleNote now has a very clear strategic road map. The > BrailleNote is not going to be replaced by a completely new device any > time soon, so some day I am sure we will have to offer a hardware upgrade > to do what we want, and most importantly, what you want. But I know that > had we offered a hardware upgrade when it wasn't really necessary to get a > lot of this functionality, we would have put it out of the reach of many > people on this list who would have struggled to find the money to pay. As > long as i work here, I'm going to do whatever I can to ensure Pulse Data > produces products in a commercially sustainable way so we can keep > innovating, but also in a way that recognises that most blind people don't > have money to burn. So as you can see I am very proud of what we've been > able to achieve, and based on the amazing response, most people think > we've done the right thing by them which is important to me. > > > Jonathan Mosen > Blindness Product Marketing Manager > Pulse Data International Ltd > > DDI: +64-3-373-6192 > Fax: +64-3-384 4933 > Mobile: +64-21 466 736 > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Internet: www.pulsedata.com > > ___ > To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit > http://list.pulsedata.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote > > ___ To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit http://list.pulsedata.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote
