RE: load of rubbish!

2009-09-27 Thread Simon Fogarty
life than the 3gs IPhone was giving me. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of ben mustill-rose Sent: Wednesday, 23 September 2009 9:02 p.m. To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: load of rubbish! Sadly

Re: load of rubbish!

2009-09-26 Thread william lomas
Yup I do apologize, forgive me, I didn't know that non UK people could hear it, how cool, :) On 25 Sep 2009, at 23:20, Justin Harford wrote: Wow just listened. Well I would have to say that apple made a mistake. They designed their phone for competent blind people. Regards Justin

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2009-09-26 Thread Yuma Antoine Decaux
Hi all, I've listened to the stereotypically high nose sounding reviewer of the iphone on BBC, and there are two things i've noticed: -He praises the web very much, and his experience is to that level because he is low vision, not totally blind. -He also congratulates Apple's efforts for a

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2009-09-25 Thread Justin Harford
Wow just listened. Well I would have to say that apple made a mistake. They designed their phone for competent blind people. Regards Justin Harford On Sep 25, 2009, at 2:55 PM, Chris Blouch wrote: For those curious, the audio can be found here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00mr52m

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2009-09-24 Thread kaare dehard
We can't forget the comfort issue here. Many people who rely on technologies also rely less on themselves and treat the words of these experts as if these were direct edicts issued from God his very own self. I really believe that the technology has been permitted to stagnate in part

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2009-09-23 Thread william lomas
hi for those who can listen to the In Touch listen again from last night, on bbc radio 4 they are saying the IPHone is totally inaccessible why do they not give apple credit, where it is due --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message

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2009-09-23 Thread ben mustill-rose
Sadly, this does seem to be the opinion of people that have not tried the device. I would have hoped that since peter knows that his show is quite popula he would have at least sat down with it for a day or so and got to kno it. If infact he has done this and still thinks its inaccessable, whilst

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2009-09-23 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Well it's the same over here in Sweden. I was at an assistive technology show last monday and showed the phone to a vendor and some blind folks here and the response was basically that yes, the phone has speech, but blind people shouldn't use touch screens at all and it was just an

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2009-09-23 Thread Matthew Elliff
no idea. i get this show as a podcast. should be in my feeds now. i'll listen to it. they migt just be getting an email from me. i had a feeling they'd say this. this is sad. On 9/23/09, Krister Ekstrom kris...@kristersplace.com wrote: Well it's the same over here in Sweden. I was at an

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2009-09-23 Thread Pete Nalda
On Sep 23, 2009, at 5:46 AM, Krister Ekstrom wrote: Well it's the same over here in Sweden. I was at an assistive technology show last monday and showed the phone to a vendor and some blind folks here and the response was basically that yes, the phone has speech, but blind people shouldn't

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2009-09-23 Thread Yuma Antoine Decaux
Makes you realize that lobbying goes a long way to put forth technologies created by government funded or associative companies to favor their products. It can also have to do with certain agreements made between insurance companies and those bulkware providers. Its all a business at the