Hi Damien, Join the club! I also tried an IPhone and hated it. While I did eventually get to the point where I could dial a number within a reasonable amount of time (with a lot of trial and error, and it still wasn't as fast as dialing a number with buttons, since you have to tap, make sure it's the number you want, double tap, repeat), the deal breaker for me was when I tried to set up my voicemail. That's usually a simple enough process that takes 2 minutes at most. With an IPhone, not so much. First, finding the blasted icon took about 5 minutes. Then, I recorded my message, groped around on the screen some more for the save button, and...it refused to save! I think I messed around with that for about half an hour before I finally gave up and took it back to the store. I'm sorry, but learning curve or no learning curve, a simple task like setting up voicemail should not take anywhere near half an hour to accomplish. As for buttons wearing out faster than touch screens, I have to disagree. I have a friend who has an Android. He's had it for less than 6 months, and he tells me that the touch screen is becoming less and less responsive. It's to the point now where he's probably going to have to buy another one, although he said if he's going to have to keep replacing it every 6 months, he might as well not bother and go back to a normal phone with buttons. My friend is someone who always takes good care of his stuff too so I would be highly skeptical that he did anything to cause it. On the other hand, I've had very basic phones, phones that did nothing but call and text, and I had one for 5 years, another for 3, and my current phone, the Pantech Breeze, which has some accessibility built in (though admittedly not as much as an IPhone or Droid), is still going strong after nearly a year. None of them actually broke. I just retired them when I wanted something new. So I would definitely have to disagree with this notion that touch screens are as immortal as some people think they are.
On 4/21/12, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > I think you're missing the point though. Touch screens are cheaper to make > and qite frankl last longer since eventually buttons will give out. My > laptop for instance is missing te Tab key. Besides, now tat it's been proven > that touch screens CAN be made accessible I can see a big leap forward in > terms of our technology. > > > > Are you threatening me? I am the great Cornholio! I come from Lake Titicaca! > -----Original Message----- > From: Damien Pendleton > Sent: Saturday, April 21, 2012 11:25 AM > To: Gamers Discussion list > Subject: Re: [Audyssey] LWorks > > Hi Dark, > If I were to go into my deepest thoughts about touch screen, I'd have to ban > myself for profanity. Trust it to say, I hate them with a passion and think > that adding voiceover to a touch screen device is just another corrupt > twisted pro sighted business way of conning the law and getting away with > discrimination. The fact that so many VI people have found a way to conquer > that is rather impressive to me, and if that's the case, then so be it. But > I think it's rather unnecessary to have to do that when the business itself > should make more of an effort. Just because they don't know we exist, or > choose to believe we don't exist, doesn't make us go away. And if companies > continue to design things in their own eye happy way, in another twenty or > thirty years it's probably unlikely we'd be able to use anything in the > mainstream market and we'll be right back to square one with specially > designed excessively expensive products and the like. > That's only my opinion, I know tons of you won't agree, but this debate goes > slightly away from games so I don't want this to turn into a full blown > argument as to which is the best operating system to work with. > That's me off my soapbox now. > Regards, > Damien. > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "dark" <[email protected]> > To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, April 21, 2012 5:55 PM > Subject: Re: [Audyssey] LWorks > > >>I must admit I'm planning on an Iphone myself when my laptop busts, since >>these days I just need something portable, and there are more and more >>really awsom sounding games for it. >> >> I understand there will be a learning curve, but actually I will probably >> use games to help me with that, for instance playing text games to learn >> about screen navigation, the same way that playing online web games got me >> >> familiar with site navigation. >> >> Of course, I've not tried one yet, so I might be jumping to conclusions, >> but from the sound of it touch screens are the way to go, and I'm >> intreagued by the idea of one that works with screen reading. >> >> Beware the grue! >> >> Dark. >> >> --- >> Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] >> If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to >> [email protected]. >> You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at >> http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. >> All messages are archived and can be searched and read at >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. >> If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the >> list, >> please send E-mail to [email protected]. > > > --- > Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] > If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to > [email protected]. > You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at > http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. > All messages are archived and can be searched and read at > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, > please send E-mail to [email protected]. > > > --- > Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] > If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to > [email protected]. > You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at > http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. > All messages are archived and can be searched and read at > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, > please send E-mail to [email protected]. > --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [email protected].
