That is coming, but for now they want to suck all the money out of
the public they can.
At 07:55 PM 3/13/2012, you wrote:
All of this might be true...
But I have several questions.
If mobile devices and new technologies are created and let's say
touchscreens are so great, why not take it up another level and
finally create a computer system like the fictional LCARS from Star
Trek, where you have instant access to your data and where you have
the option of full real time interactive voice control plus voice
output of everything?
Surely voice input and output shouldn't be desired by blind users in
the world alone, it could be adapted for everyone.
And the other thing I am wondering about is the usage of mobile
devices in general.
I was born blind and could never see, nor do I currently have a
device like an IPhone...
But I'd like to ask anyone who could see at some point in their life
to tell me why watching some HD videos on super small mobile
displays or playing complex and graphically intensive games with
said small devices instead of using more stationary devices and
large screens capable of handling digital HD media?
I can understand why people would like to have more functions in
small devices. But things like listening to music with more than
two speakers like 5.1 or 7.1 audio systems or watching high
resolution movies and such surely should remain on the currently
needed technology instead of being ported to small devices unless
you can adapt them as well to handle all this.
I don't know what the processing capabilities of android phones are
or what said capabilities are for other mobile devices, but I doubt
that they are really better than current high tech computing
equipment and the big computer networks and super computers.
Surely, there is still time for such developments, but the question
remains who does set such trents and can companies like Microsoft
influence or stop such trents, because Microsoft is not small and
should have considerable power, so it could be asked if Microsoft
must adapt, or could Microsoft force others to adapt to whatever they create.
Besides, why do we or companies have to follow and copy whatever
someone makes before us?
This discussion of user interfaces (Office 2003 vs 2007 design for
example) is pointless in my opinion.
I personally don't have problems with the idea of changing the
design of a program.
But we do we have to be forced to a design. Let's take the Office
2007 design for an example.
I have read several reports and posts in various forums (sighted
users) where people were not happy with the new design not because
they had to learn new things, but because they did not have a choice
in the matter meaning that everyone who got the new Office for
whatever reason had to use the new design.
But what I never got in this talk was, why Microsoft did not offer
two designs?
Look at Windows Media Player or Winamp. Both programs have skins
which you can download or create yourself to alter and customice the
interface of your program. But why don't more programs have the
option for skins (surely it can't be because they want to make
money, because you could theoretically sell anything you develop).
So, what is the problem with the talks of designs and user feedback
companies are getting and seemingly ignore here and there sometimes?
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