John, The transition to intel was not the problem. I'm certain it was add-ons like Front Row and many of the nifty things slated to come out with Leopard.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Weir Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 8:57 PM To: General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by theblind Subject: Re: iTunes' Inaccessibility and VoiceOver One thing to be considered in all this. Just as VO came out in Tiger, Apple made a decision to shift to the intel chip and it pulled all its assorted SW development teams off the jobs they were doing and assigned them fully to the transition task. The VO team was stripped to help in this effort and the planned fixes that Apple knew about were put off to get the transistion done. For the Last year Apple has been in a dangerous position, some what like changing horses in mid stream. They needed to apply all their talent to making the change happen rapidly before the Apple computer market crashed while users waited for the new intel systems. Now that all the transition has been accomplished, it would appear to me that they will now settle down to completing the work needed on VO and possibly making other Apple products accessable. But Apple lost a good 15 months to make the change. So dont be too criticle about an 18 month time period to "fix" itunes and other programs. They are only now really working on the items that they had to put off. Vickie Weir Scott Howell wrote: > Ah, at last some intelligent conversation on this topic. I think Joe > and Abdul have exchanged some thoughts here that actually make sense. > I agree with both and would say that yes Apple has done great things, > but the fact is, they must continue and if it means holding their feet > to the fire, then by all means. > Joe being a developer has a good grip on development cycles etc. and I > realize all of this will take time, but I agree that 18 months does > seem a little long considering. I think however, keeping in mind the > priorities of Apple's developers is a must as well. Surely it would be > easy to add accessibility in, but surely it would make more sense to > do so at the outset as opposed to patching it in after the fact. > Of course Itunes has been in development for a good long while now and > at this point I'd think if it were possible, then they aut to get to > it. Of course Itunes is not the only application at all, there's > plenty they could work on. > Of course unless we're sitting with the teams everyday, we aren't > going to know what the future holds, but we can only hope and > encourage. As customers, even a minoirity at that, we do have the > ability to make our desires known. This is the power of words and of > course voting with your purchases doesn't hurt things. grin Good > discussion fellas. > > Scott > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >
