Frankly, I too have developed different type platform software, so I too know what goes into it. What I can tell you is the fact. Apple is dropping care more and more for accessibility.
Let me support my reasonnings. Retna Display Eye Candy a.. It seems lately all they care about is the new pretty eye-candy one gets with the new retina displays b.. Look at the new IPads and the new IMac coming out in December. Everyone's cuttling and cooing over the cute beautifully gorgeous display c.. Everyone loves that the new IOS displays are a higher megga pixil ratio of 1024X768 Facetime a.. Who in the blind community cares that the front eyesight camera on IOS devices is twice the pixil ratio!? New Developments a.. Developing a really pretty lookin' doo-hicky cord for I O S called lightning interface, which really doesn't live any more up to its own name than the speed of USB. b.. IBooks has to be made more pretty, yeah there is the new accessibility with reading pdf's, and that's great, but not great for those of us who read books and not just pdf's. c.. ITunes Match is a great new feature, in fact, I'm a die hard fanatic of it, but again, why develop new things rather than maybe look more into things others have asked for for years. d.. ITunes Radio is great, but look at all the people who have wanted the ITunes search box/feature in that source so we don't have to scroll through a huge table, just to find the dad blamed station we need. Believe you me, I'm not the first one who's blind, who's requested this dating as far back as several years ago. e.. Adding new things to the Apple TV like Apple Events, NBA, Hulu, Netflix, etc. Why not work on the things that so many of us Apple TV users both blind and not have truely asked for rather than new features to surprise us. f.. App store on IOS eye candy is terrible! They can't keep it straight and once done, leave it alone. It always has to be more pretty for the people who aren't blink blinks. Of corse, don't remind them that every time they change the store, they break it again and never really seem to fix things until we rant and rave and they finally hear enough of it. g.. The new ear pods: What the heck! The initial ear buds were not that great anyway, but now you're gonna make these egg shaped things that poke into your ear canal even more so, and make your ears even worse and clog up your ears? Hear Apple, wanna peace a my ear wax? h.. The new IPod Touch and new IPhone 5: OK big frickin deal. A bigger screen that's longer than the 4S predecessor. i.. The new ITunes store look/feel that came into 10.7. Is there really any quote: difference? I sure don't see any. j.. What about the Apple cinema displays. Sure they're real nice. Real nice and expensive. Real nice and bulky for us who couldn't care two licks less if we had a 1 centimeter screen vs. a 1000 kilometer sized screen. We can't see anyway. who cares! See what I mean? It's all the hife about looky do this, looky do that. Looky do me, with a baseball bat! BTW, are they punting? Sorry, inside joke. Seriously though... I don't doubt that they are listenning to feedback, I agree with you whole heartedly, but are they listenning only to the feedback they like and wanna hear is the question. I too am sorry to sound so blunt/rough, but in my defense, you have to admit whether you want to or not, I do stand some valid points. Maybe if not many, I do at least, stand some. Chris. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
