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Re: Apple: The Unsettling Rumor Does this also mean that the iPhone se will not have a headphone jack? I will be getting either an iPhone 5S or an iPhone se at some point, when the se roles out first. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=254625#p254625
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Re: Apple: The Unsettling Rumor @Nocturnus;JAWS uses pitch to indicate whether a letter is capitalized or not, it also uses pitch when reading, especially with long passages, the voice's pitch lowers as it progresses through the block of text. If you don't like the pitch changes, you can
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Re: Apple: The Unsettling Rumor @Nocturnus,Well I appreciate the so coled "revolution" on audio, but the problem is that we could be forced to buy headphones from apple only, which normally cost 50 dollars if I'm not wrong. So, I believe in many undeveloped countries like mine,
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Re: Apple: The Unsettling Rumor @figment,The new iPhone SE is either unveiled or going to be unveiled. This will be a smaller form factor of the iPfone 6S. The iPad Pro will receive the same treatment with a 9.7 inch screen, the same size as the iPad Air 2.Best Regards,Luke URL: http
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Re: Apple: The Unsettling Rumor I personally don't care if the iPhone has a headphone jack or not.1. I don't use my iPhone for entertainment so the built in speakers or just fine.2. For those very rare instances where I might want to keep what voiceover says private, I use blue tooth head
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Re: Apple: The Unsettling Rumor I'd first like to go on record saying that I still don't fully appreciate Apple; iTune's is a pile of garbage and a cespool at the same time, complete with a layout and lack of features that is driving me up the wall right about now, since I feel like all
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Re: Apple: The Unsettling Rumor Oh my God, the information presented in the first post is almost true, if not official.There will be no headphones port!The voice on your headsets will come through another technology which they call it revolutionary. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net
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Re: Apple: The Unsettling Rumor my blu energy x has a nice rubber cover that goes over the back and it has a nice feel to it. it runs android lollypop 5.1. I recommend blu energy x with 1.3ghz quad core processor 1gigs ram 3gigs storeage with 32gigs micro sd card and 8mp camera and gps
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Re: Apple: The Unsettling Rumor no not true. you know what i do to turn on talkback? turn on my blu energy x $109 phone after unboxing it, wait till i hear the startup music, then hold two fingers on the screen and talkback comes on. then i set it up. i switch to google keyboard
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Re: Apple: The Unsettling Rumor does shine plus work on tablets or is it only for android phones? URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=246829#p246829 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin
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Re: Apple: The Unsettling Rumor Yeah, Sebby gets it; glad someone does.All of the screen readers as of late are currently responsible for practically taking each other's features and imitating them to the point that every update that comes out nowadays is just another argument waiting
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Re: Apple: The Unsettling Rumor Even though I agree that more choice is good in some circumstances, I already have four Windows screen readers, and probably still don't have complete and accurate coverage. Of course the flip side is that I have the most choice on that platform within
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Re: Apple: The Unsettling Rumor Yes, sucks to be blind. I'll give you that. But you do still have a choice, and it's not Apple, Microsoft or Google. You won't like it very much though. But to be honest (any surprises coming up?), I think I'd use iPhone anyway, because privacy. I think
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Re: Apple: The Unsettling Rumor To be honest all this talk of connectors and lightning is a bit superfluous to me, sinse whatever the hardware is doing I just don't like Apple's software solutions to file handling for media, ie, the dreaded Itunes. If I do ever get a mac that might change
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Re: Apple: The Unsettling Rumor Ah well, spent a year on Android. That has to count for something, right? I'm back, Apple. I tried to get away from you, but you were too accessible... Methinks this is how iSubmit gets started. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=246689
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Re: Apple: The Unsettling Rumor That is true, which leads me to my next point. TalkBack is open source, so it is even more disappointing that it isn't making sufficient progress. I still don't understand why third-party developers don't seem to be adding to it when Google doesn't seem
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Re: Apple: The Unsettling Rumor it boils down to this; does it really matter that you have more options if all of them work differently and you have to figure out which one you want to use for what purpose, or is it more important to have a single option that works seamlessly across its
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Re: Apple: The Unsettling Rumor That is true, which leads me to my next point. TalkBack is open source, so it is even more disappointing that it isn't making sufficient progress. I still don't understand why third-party developers don't seem to be adding to it when Google doesn't seem
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Re: Apple: The Unsettling Rumor Thanks for clarifying.Sent from my iPhone URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=246753#p246753 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https
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Re: Apple: The Unsettling Rumor I honestly wouldn't mind a mac, if nothing else so I can say I've had one, though I happen to need something that does well with audio production things, and I know macs generally do. Even if I kept my windows machines for overall general browsing
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Re: Apple: The Unsettling Rumor Yeah, Microsoft are clearly getting desperate: not only are they trying to privacy-rape you, they're now double-dipping those who've somehow managed to opt out of the Windows 10 nagfest who will actually have to pay to be privacy-raped. Between the spyware
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Re: Apple: The Unsettling Rumor @Nocturnus: my experience says that the part most people switching have difficulty with is the web browsing. Undoubtedly, force of habit will ease the frustration, but there is no doubt that it's quite different. Still, as of Yosemite, a lot more Windows
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Re: Apple: The Unsettling Rumor IN Lollipop, web views are now installed as a system service. So, you no longer need scripts to enhance access to them with screen readers like TalkBack. Though they are still not as robust as they are on iOS, they have improved since the introduction
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Re: Apple: The Unsettling Rumor Yo,The discussion is driving into another direction, but anyway, speaking of two screen readers, Talkback and ShinePlus, the difference is not big, or, if you make a small research yourself, they are almost identical in terms of functionality.Talkback reads
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Re: Apple: The Unsettling Rumor Nocturnus, I have to agree with you on the first part of your post where you say that it’s better having a single option that works flawlessly for you rather than having a number of options where none of them does the job like that single one does. As I told
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Re: Apple: The Unsettling Rumor Ah, nostalgia. It really does though, come down to choosing the lesser of two, or more, evils. I still have a vague suspicion that, in a few years time, all of this won't matter anymore. Apple is currently considering buying Time Warner, a move I hardly
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Re: Apple: The Unsettling Rumor To answer Sebby's question, Shine Plus is totally free and it's more flexible than TalkBack, so no one is stuck with TalkBack the way they are with VoiceOver on iOS. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=246744#p246744
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Re: Apple: The Unsettling Rumor As Nocturnus says, he asked the question. But I'll respond anyway.@RTR_Assassin: no they're not, and that is indeed to Android's credit. Sadly though, at least when I tried it a couple of months back, you still need alternative views for doing fairly basic
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Re: Apple: The Unsettling Rumor lol Actually, it was my question. Far be it from me to let Sebby take heat for something I did. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=246745#p246745 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list
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Re: Apple: The Unsettling Rumor Hi,It’s so sad that they’re doing this, but if the decision is made, hard it’ll be to change anything. I hate the fact that we will be forced to keep an extra cable, or whatever kind of bloody adaptors to use a pair of headphones. I’m planning to get
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Re: Apple: The Unsettling Rumor Yes. Webviews still not being accessible is the most absolutely absurd and sad thing about the whole Android experience. It's an embarrassment! Honestly, I respect (some of) the principle objections Android users make about Apple, but seriously, you've got
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Re: Apple: The Unsettling Rumor So, in essence, it comes down to buying yet another something to work with something. There really is no difference, unless you're here to tell me that Shine Plus is free?There is no one size fits all in the name of accessibility; that's my position
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Re: Apple: The Unsettling Rumor To all of you who think Apple is more accessible, I have to say that your experiences with Android vary due to many factors. First, different manufacturers preinstall bloatware on their devices, often making them complicated to use. Custom skins might look
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Re: Apple: The Unsettling Rumor It'd be as honest as I can make it. I've only ever messed with one in an Apple store, which isn't enough to do the thing justice. I didn't care for the way things were done, but I've been using windows for the better part of 15 years now. Much like
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Re: Apple: The Unsettling Rumor Guahahaha! first accessibility, then the world! And so it was written that man took of the Apple and thus fell from grace! URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=246699#p246699 ___ Audiogames
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Re: Apple: The Unsettling Rumor As Nocturnus says, he asked the question. But I'll respond anyway.@RTR_Assassin: no they're not, and that is indeed to Android's credit. Sadly though, at least when I tried it a couple of months back, you still need alternative views for doing fairly basic
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Re: Apple: The Unsettling Rumor Ah Slj, but don't forget that those connectors might be used to gasp! connect to a none apple device! noo! Much as I love Apple's accessibility, and inervative aps and useful functions, their restriction is annoying, then again it's just like anything
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Re: Apple: The Unsettling Rumor Yes, the loss of optical output on Apple TV sucks donkey balls for us because we now need to invest in an audio-visual splitter or receiver to avoid the need for an actual television, but to Apple's credit (yes, yes, I know, it's totally unfashionable
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Re: Apple: The Unsettling Rumor I'm quite disappointed that the iPad Pro doesn't run a full version of OSX. Damn that would be awesome. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=246672#p246672 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list
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Re: Apple: The Unsettling Rumor The case on audio is easy to make, but it's evident of controlling what the user can use regarding audio output or even input.Ah, yes, thunderbolt. I forgot to include that in the equation. I knew I wasn't clarifying what I meant. Although aren't
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Re: Apple: The Unsettling Rumor I think audio quality is a very easy case to make when you consider the crap put out by most Bluetooth devices, and the GSM buzz you hear on most cheap headsets. Speaking personally I'd love to have a market in DACs, and if Apple wants to get out
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Re: Apple: The Unsettling Rumor Apparently, the dual lightning port would enhance sound quality since it would allow for apple to build or, in this case, revamp how it treats audio on its device. I'm not sure precisely what I think about it, but I suppose that if this possibility holds
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Re: Apple: The Unsettling Rumor I think audio quality is a very easy case to make when you consider the crap put out by most Bluetooth devices, and the GSM buzz you hear on most cheap headsets. Speaking personally I'd love to have a market in DACs, and if Apple wants to get out
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Re: Apple: The Unsettling Rumor Yes, the loss of optical output on Apple TV sucks donkey balls for us because we now need to invest in an audio-visual splitter or receiver to avoid the need for an actual television, but to Apple's credit (yes, yes, I know, it's totally unfashionable
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Re: Apple: The Unsettling Rumor I think it's still 3.0 for the MacBook with the type C connector, and that's the only notebook with that connector. Just like the original MacBook Air, it has only one port; even Google's Pixel has two. We've still got a way to go yet.To be honest though
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Re: Apple: The Unsettling Rumor I think it's still 3.0 for the MacBook with the type C connector, and that's the only notebook with that connector. Just like the original MacBook Air, it has only one port; even Google's Pixel has two. We've still got a way to go yet.To be honest though
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Re: Apple: The Unsettling Rumor I'm surprised they're using enhanced audio quality as a way to validate their removal of the 3.5mm jack. The average listener doesn't know good quality from bad quality, or what good and bad quality really are in the first place. So I'm not sure why
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Re: Apple: The Unsettling Rumor Well, if this rumor is true, then they'll make a lightning to minijack adapter.It wouldn't surprise me if they wanna remove the minijack. Apple are removing more and more connecters in all their products. The latest thing we saw was the opticle output
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Re: Apple: The Unsettling Rumor If you believe the answer is as simple as switching to Android, let me just say I beg to differ. While I can in fact point to advancements made in the accessibility department since I myself own an Android device and could just as easily shrug off
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Re: Apple: The Unsettling Rumor Is it worth fretting about this rumor? Have any of the previous remors among these posts come true?From my experience, before the iPad Pro was officially declared to be released by Apple last year, the preceeding majority of rumors were false - from
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Re: Apple: The Unsettling Rumor "silly legacy" not for people who want to play their Iphones and other devices thorugh any standard set of audio speakers methinks, not to mention many highly dedicated earphones (I used to use my Iphone through my sanheisa momentums). That is
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Re: Apple: The Unsettling Rumor More reason why I switch to android. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=246526#p246526 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin
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Re: Apple: The Unsettling Rumor hi all i m fine with nexus and k n f b i don't think that an i phone is must for people like usso if it comes to be true u all can switch to android and breath in the open air rather then a close garden URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid
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Re: Apple: The Unsettling Rumor As far as I know, it is still a roomer. Even if they do away with the head phone jack, they can only make it so thin. At some point it really begins to affect the battery life. If you really think about it, the head phone jack is in fact smaller than the USB
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Re: Apple: The Unsettling Rumor This wouldn't surprise me, indeed when seeing several proprietory sets of headphones which, though they connected through the standard 3.5 mm jack lacked the ring connectors to work with any other device I did wonder how long it'd be before Apple made
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Re: Apple: The Unsettling Rumor When I first read about this, my response was to simply reject it as clearly false. There is no logical reason for doing this to make the phone thinner: there are already thinner products that include the standard 3.5 jack, including Apple's own iPod. So
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Re: Apple: The Unsettling Rumor Yeah, like they need a thinner phone. The 6s is honestly thin enough. I don't think it's really worth it. I feel like this will be a rather risky, ill-advised business decision because most of the people these days use corded earbuds/headphones. If you lose
Re: Apple: The Unsettling Rumor
Re: Apple: The Unsettling Rumor THis is android's chance to gain some ground, although this most certainly isn't a good move and I am not impressed in the least. Who needs a thinner phone? Honestly, it's all about thinness, being tiny, and all that these days, when we all did perfectly
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Re: Apple: The Unsettling Rumor My nexus has a anice curbe on the sides with makes for a bit more of a grip. Iphone? Way too slippery without a case. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=246424#p246424 ___ Audiogames-reflector
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AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : Trenton Goldshark via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Apple: The Unsettling Rumor In addition to the "head phone jack" most likely disappearing, I quote the following paragraph from this article from Android Authority:Apple has successfully been pressured by several European telecommunications companies to make it easier to s
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Re: Apple: The Unsettling Rumor I have heart about These rumors too. I still have an IPhone 5. I am planning to upgrade, but I wanted to wait until march. As far as I know, they are planning to release an IPhone 6C. Depending on it's Features, I will decide, if I will get a 6C or a 6S
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Re: Apple: The Unsettling Rumor man the iPhones are too damn thin, I like something with a little beef to it. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=246418#p246418 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector
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Re: Apple: The Unsettling Rumor Apple recently clarified that the rumored Move to Android app is false URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=246430#p246430 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin
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Re: Apple: The Unsettling Rumor And honestly, why would they make that kind of app anyway? And the rumors fly again. Yes, they made a switch from android to iphone app, but, duh, that's for switchingt o an iphone. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=246431#p246431
