We were a bit disappointed in our local Apple Store in our county here. The store in San Francisco that we were in on Monday had the Ipods syncked so they worked impressively! Reading all the menu choices and song lists.
But our store, not a singe one had the voice synked up on it. Worse, the employees didn't even know they had the voice capability! And neither did the manager. Yes, I took this issue all the way to the manager. I told them all, I was very disappointed. And I reminded them that just 12 miles north of their store or so was Guide Dogs for the Blind. I told the manager, it's possible, that they might get a nice big group of blind folks in here all at once! If GDB decides to take a class to their mall for some work, and came into the Apple store! And they'd better get on the ball and be ready! heh heh. I had that guy's eyes big. It was kind of funny. But hopefully, I irked them into getting those display models talking, and their empoyees up to date on how to work the voice menus, so they can help people. And, how many other Apple stores don't have the voice syncked up in their demos, and employees that cannot tell you how it works because they don't even know it has the voice capability? Just a heads up, you might have to educate them! Felix did buy a 16 GB nano anyway, even though he didn't get to play with them again first in the store. best, janet ---------------------------------------- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Lioncourt.com Review: Shake, Shuffle, and Roll > Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 21:38:55 -0700 > > Hi > > Well that makes a great promotional, but could someone write about how > well it actually works? What we can expect when we purchase it, bugs, > purks, of course it talks but what else is there to know about it. > > I have been wanting to try one of these things out for a while now but > can't seem to figure out how as you have to set it up through your > itunes library and you won't find any such unit at an apple store. > > One interesting thing I did notice about the nano is that if it is > playing music and you start to move through the menus, the music > volume gets cut in half, presumably so that speech may be heard. > Pretty cool, but again, no experience actually using the speech. > > Regards > Justin Harford > On Sep 18, 2008, at 9:22 PM, Josh de Lioncourt wrote: > >> Thanks go to Shane Jackson for his review of the iPod Nano 4G and >> its speaking interface. You can read the review at this link: >> >> http://www.lioncourt.com/shake-shuffle-and-roll/ >> >> Josh de Lioncourt >> >> ...my other mail provider is an owl... >> >> >> > >
