yes I certainly understand your points and I can see where almst all of
them would be valid. But I wonder if this is part of the reason that
Apple has told their lead software developer to leave besides the fact
he screwed up the maps on the IOS devices.
On 11/6/2012 01:50 AM, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote:
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
* It seems lately all they care about is the new pretty eye-candy
one gets with the new retina displays
* Look at the new IPads and the new IMac coming out in December.
Everyone's cuttling and cooing over the cute beautifully gorgeous
display
* Everyone loves that the new IOS displays are a higher megga pixil
ratio of 1024X768
Facetime
* Who in the blind community cares that the front eyesight camera on
IOS devices is twice the pixil ratio!?
New Developments
* 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.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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?
* The new IPod Touch and new IPhone 5: OK big frickin deal. A
bigger screen that's longer than the 4S predecessor.
* The new ITunes store look/feel that came into 10.7. Is there
really any quote: difference? I sure don't see any.
* 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.
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