Hi James,
Just as I thought. Thanks for your quick response,
Take care
Graham
----- Original Message -----
From: "James Austin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by
theblind" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2008 9:18 PM
Subject: Re: iTunes strange happening
Hi Graham,
No, if you only want to download podcasts, you don't need to provide
Apple with any financial details, as the majority of podcasts are free,
although you'll find a great many in the ITunes store, you'll find
hundreds if not thousands more all over the internet.
The same is also true for burning/importing CDs.
Hope this helps
With warmest wishes
James
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On 22 Jul 2008, at 21:07, graham wrote:
Hi,
As someone who's just gotten interested in Itunes do I understand it
that if you want to download podcasts only and have no intention of
buying tunes from the Itunes store which I certainly never will, you
have to set up an Itunes account and give Apple your credit card
details?
Does this also apply if you just want to load your own cd's in to the
library?
Sorry if I'm missing something here.
As for that chap being so obviously rude I only wish he'd said what he
did to me.
Kind regards
Graham
----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Gilland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS Xby
theblind" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, July 21, 2008 10:36 AM
Subject: Re: iTunes strange happening
Jude,
You're not alone my friend.
My mom's over paranoid and won't accept the terms for me. She thinks
that just because it asks for a credit card number to put on file, that
means I'm autojatically gonna be charged. I tolder no, that is not the
case, but she won't listen. So, I dono what to do. I don't have
Leopard, so I can't use back to my Mac, and have someone remote into
the system. Mike's gf and I tried IChat, but my version in Tiger of
IChat doesn't seem to wanna let me add me.com addresses, but instead
only .mac addresses. and AIM through IChat wouldn't let us do it.
Apple due to quote: legality reasons won't remote in and help me.
When I spoke with an ITunes product store specialist, they said in
there exact words: The law, is the law, is the law. I asked them,
when that part would be made accessible, and they said, well, that's so
minor of a thing, just get over it, and get someone sighted, we could
frankly care less to fix that part. the guy was extremely rude. When I
threatened him with the ADA and told him, that by them not wishing to
provide access, was their right, but when they sit here and say since I
am blind, there is no reason for us people to use the ITunes store
when there are many other legal music download services that would
work... I told him, o, so, you're refusing purposefully to help the
blind with things like this... He then very directly, said that is
correct. Why should we? It's not worth us fixing it. We got bigger
accessibility things to deal with to make you all happy. It's almost
like he felt that we're doing them a burden by making things so
accessible. Boy did that make me lose a lotta respect in them. I
thought they were honestly doing it cause they wanted to. Not because
they had to. In any rate, I took this complaint to my local nfb
chapter, and I also took it to my local ACB chapter. Both of which are
looking into this to see what we can do to fight this, and get that
stupid window to be vo ready, as both organization chapters down here
agree if they could make everything else work, then, this is stupid.
why couldn't they make this work. I even told them, when he said, well
the way that window works if we made it work, voice over would jump to
it, but then vo up down left or right would then skip over all the
content inside of it. I'm like, don't give me that BS. Have you never
heard of interacting with an item? He's like, ok, so you bought a
program that speaks to you what is on the screen? I'm like, no, I'm
using voice over. He's like, o, you talk to your computer. OK, well,
you need to go to the company who makes voice over so they can help you
more. I'm like, you! idiot? You all! make voice over. It's built into
your opporating system. This is why all you Apple certified
technitions know your products. And why, you all clame to be committed
to accessibility, thus, know your accessibility products, or, have
folks there who for once, do. O, I was piss'ss'ssed!
I dono, yall got any comments on this?
Chris.
!
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jude DaShiell"
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To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, July 20, 2008 9:25 PM
Subject: iTunes strange happening
I went to listen to an episode of the screenless switchers podcast
earlier tonight. First time I had tried that with this version of
Itunes. I got asked for credentials so gave the iTunes store my .mac
address and password and was told those credentials had never been
seen by the store before; then I was given the option to review my
credentials or cancel so I hit the review button because I didn't want
to cancel the listening session. Strangely, my credentials and account
did not appear on the screen again, but the screenless switchers
podcast began to play. I'm pretty certain I still don't have an
iTunes account nor will I have one until someone gets through that
captta for me but this was an interesting thing to have had happen.
