I don’t need to comment on the ethics of the discussion, since that has already elicited all the usual fairly predictable responses, but I’m pretty sure I remember paying more for the Mac voices than for the Doze ones, so I checked where prices stand now.
Here are the numbers: to buy all of the Infovox iVox English voices for the Mac, in one go, and benefiting from the 40% discount for 30 or more voices (total 39 English voices) it would cost me £280.80, which entitles me to a licence of each voice for one Mac. On Windows, the same product is the InfoVox 4 English bundle, which costs £270.00 from Computer Room Services, who will ship you a physical USB key, that permits activations on up to 3 Windows boxes. So, no. Alas, we Mac users are, in fact, being ripped off pretty thoroughly compared to our unfortunate Windows-using friends. This is, of course, entirely unsurprising. I think it’s best to avoid discussing the price when advocating the Mac platform. :) -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
