Well there's me told. Your self sacrifice is doubtless widely appreciated
and your humility too. For someone not concerned about Loadstone you
certainly have used up bandwidth.
For what it is worth, I don't much like using a touch screen device for
mobility applications because they are difficult to use one handed and when
I am on the move one hand always has a cane in it. Could as well be a dog of
course but on the Nokia one could hold the phone in one hand and operate it
without having to stop.
BlindSquare has got around this to a point with the menu control on the
Bluetooth headset and one could also buy a Rivo keyboard, all more stuff to
charge so more wires and chargers and batteries to haul about.
I always also had difficulty in getting maps onto the phone with Loadstone,
here is where the Android might actually excel being less fussy about
importing stuff than the iDevice platform.
I think the Loadstone group actually did a pretty good thing. Apart from
Wayfinder, now a brief memory they got a really good stable product onto our
phones when others didn't.
I understand why people don't rush out to crowd based funding, there is so
little accountability. These guys are a little different insofar as they
aren't operating a business unlike say the fine folk from Aftershokz or the
SixDot battery powered Dymo tape embosser who seem to be unwilling to expand
their product line without first fully funding it.
It doesn't really matter what I think though any more than what you think so
I suppose the correct thing to do is to drop the subject. I concede that you
are far too clever for me.
Dale Leavens.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Mielke" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2015 9:26 PM
Subject: Re: [Loadstone] Porting to Android
[quoted lines by Dale Leavens on 2015/10/22 at 18:26 -0400]
Hi:
Dave,
Frankly it is you who doesn't like Shawn's decision to port to the
iPhone. He has given his reasons. Just because you don't like them
doesn't mean they are invalid or that he is some sort of spoon fed
blind person.
No, not at all. You're making a huge assumption - that I even care if
Loadstone
is ported. Quite frankly (to borrow your term), I don't. I'm entirely
content
with applications that use Google Maps.
I've used Loadstone for usre, and I did like it, but it's now been years
since
it's had any kind of update. I've no guarantee, therefore, that it'll ever
have
any kind of meaningful updates. All I hear is "give me money and maybe
I'll
work on it". Quite frankly (there I go borrowing your phrase again), there
are
those of us who've poored our lives into open source software without
asking
for even a penny even though we've had significant expenses that we gladly
covered with personal funds even though we have families and lots of other
financial obligations.
So, quite frankly (there I go again - thank you for the phrase), be
careful
before you cast stones.
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