Hi Peter: For what it's worth, I don't like it either. People might get confused with Apps for the I-phone. But we can't do anything about it, so we just have to suck it up. Kevin Huber
On 9/28/11, Peter Beasley <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't like the term Aps. As far as I am concerned, they are still scripts > and should still be called scripts. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "David" <[email protected]> > To: "Mike Pietruk" <[email protected]>; "Richard G Applegate" > <[email protected]> > Cc: "'John Gunn'" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2011 7:52 PM > Subject: Re: Window-Eyes and OCR > > >> Wonder how many would have been buying their car, if the dealer told them >> the following: >> >> Since there exists so many manufacturers of tires, car glass, wipers, >> exhaust systems, head lights, seat covers, oil, and so forth - we are only >> >> going to sell you the very body of the car itself. You sure are welcome to >> >> buy all the rest from our store, or you could go somewhere else. If you >> are good at it, go ahead and invent some parts of your own. >> >> . . . >> >> Well, I am sure, very few of us would have been spending any more money in >> >> that store. True enough, the day our tires are getting worn out, it is a >> good thing, there exists choices. And we do appriciate that we don't have >> to go and buy a brand new car, just for the sake of some silly tires. >> >> Yes, it is a great capability of WE, that we have got the chance of apps. >> And, I doubt after all, that any of you want us back in the pre7.0 days, >> when we had to wait for GW to do everything. Let's not forget all the >> benefits of apps. But apps should never replace the need for a strong >> screen reader's "body". It would really be a pity, if we got that far - as >> >> one lister humouristically put it - that we get a 'shaved to the bone' >> scrren reader, and have to download apps for every small detail. A car >> comes with tires, headlights and wipers preinstalled. They are loose >> things; parts that the manufacturer had to fasten onto the body. WE, does >> ship with a few apps today. In many ways, we could tell them to be 'loose >> parts', that GW 'fastened' to the main body of the screen reader. >> >> Yes, it is a great thing, that whoever has a bit of knowledge, time and >> energy - could write apps. But we have to balance that, with the risk of >> ending up with the user having to deal with fifty apps. And, when >> something goes wrong? The first thing we are told, is to go and talk to >> this and that app developer. Bring your car to the garage, and then listen >> >> to them telling you, that: "Since you happen to put on this brand of >> tires, the fuel injection system does not work properly. Go and talk to >> your tire manufacturer, and we will change the battery for you." Smile! >> >> >> I am not saying all of this, just to push all the response onto the >> shoulders of gW. But quite frankly, we too often hear things like "write >> an app". Apps are great, in the sense that they can easily be updated, >> they can be written by anyone, and they can enhance the user's experience. >> >> But they can never - or at least should never - replace native >> functionality of the screen reader. Well just a reminder. >> >> Now said, I do see the great benefits of the OCR feature as an app. >> Unfortunately, I do not have the skills, nor the energy, to write such an >> app. Just hope someone will take it on. Seem to remember, there even was >> some kind of free-sourced OCR software on the net, last time I looked >> around for that stuff. If my memory goes right here, maybe that could be >> one thing to start out with, since you then would have no problem with >> licensing of the OCR software itself. Just an idea. >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Mike Pietruk" <[email protected]> >> To: "Richard G Applegate" <[email protected]> >> Cc: "'John Gunn'" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> >> Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2011 6:51 PM >> 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. 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