App support is an integral part of the product. And if your premise was
correct program such as mirc and win amp just to name a few would not be as
popular as they are. For example, mIRC the most popular Internet relay chat
program starts out with a very basic feature set, but through scripts you
can enhance your client in several ways. Winamp works the same way you can
get plug-ins to do all kinds of things that are not included in the original
player. This allows you to have a basic player or client that in a lot of
cases will meet the user's needs but it allows you do to it scripting
support to expand the product to meet your individual needs and desires.
Also, through app writing you expand the developer base where GW micro may
have three or four programmers on staff with app writing you can introduce
100 different developers or more the number is really unlimited who are
focused on a single aspect of development. For example, Mr. Bishop has
developed the app for winamp. his focuses primarily devoted to development
for Winamp. If you are a user of winamp then you go ahead and install that
app. If you do not use it, then there's no point in you installing that
app.
also from the average user perspective, the average user looks at
cost-effectiveness app support allowed GW micro and other developers to
introduce several new features into window eyes 7.0 and onward with
absolutely no charge to the user for these enhancements. they were able to
do so through app development. For example, the OCR feature we were
discussing earlier could be added to the existing version of window eyes
without the user being charged for any kind of upgrade. This in itself is
an incentive for the average user, because it saves him or her money.
I could see a problem if we were asking the average user to go to several
different websites and download and install several different applications,
but this is not the case. You simply choose a convenient utility modeled
after aptitude to go down the list of apps available install the ones you
want and this process is extremely straightforward. Thus allowing you to
customize your own personal window eyes experience also to eliminate bloat
ware and allows you the user to remove features that you personally do not
use. For example window eyes currently ships with an app called jaws quick
key. I personally have no use for this particular app, so there is no
reason for me to have it installed and taking up system resources. Even
though the resources that they are taking up is marginal. I can remove this
feature because I do not use it. I personally love the progress bar
indication app but other people have absolutely no use for it. And if that
is the case they can remove it. Another good example is the list focus
controls. I have several applications where this App is extremely useful
because it allows me to list the focusable controls and to move to them by
selecting from a list box. Other people may not have the need for this
particular feature and therefore they're not going to install the app. I
really think that we are giving the user here the best of both worlds a very
powerful and user-friendly core product with the ability to expand the core
product that is customizable to the individual needs of the user. You
should also note that this is not a new concept web browsers, media players,
the list goes on has been doing this for years window eyes as far as I know
is the only screen reader develop that is following the main market trend.
Jim grimsby Jr.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Pietruk
Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2011 9:51 AM
To: Richard G Applegate
Cc: 'John Gunn' ; [email protected]
Subject: RE: Window-Eyes and OCR
Richard
In some ways, we are getting into semantics here.
From the standpoint of marketing and non-techie users, the more features
that are built-in to a product, the more potential customers exist for
that product.
Since GWMicro is in the sales business, they naturally want to find as
many potential new customers as well as existing customers choosing to
upgrade.
Secondly, while aps are nice, I suspect that average user finds things
built-in the product less frustrating than having to download something
and then dealing with the idiocyncracies of individual ap writers.Aps, as
I see it, are often stopgap measures to do something; but if that
something is core to the product, they should become part of the
innerworkings of the product at update.
In the truest sense, Christian pilgrims have the best of both worlds. We
have joy
whenever this world reminds us of the next, and we take solace whenever it
does not.
C. S. Lewis
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