that probably is part of it. The connections we had, told us that they
were pulled to work the transition but the transition certainly
included Leopard or at least making Apple SW universal or work with
rosetta. Vickie Weir
Abdul Kamara wrote:
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.
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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
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