I take your points, a couple of things here. The chap I got the Voice Sense from was terribly frustrated with the device, at the time there was a very annoying bug in the firmware which caused scheduled alarms to go off at randome times, I never personally had trouble but the bug was very well documented to say the least.
Hims Inc fixed the problem in a subsequent firmware update and - to be fair to the person I bought the unit from - I offered it back to him but he wasn't interested, by that time he'd moved onto an iPhone and iPad and he hasn't looked back. Well designed technology stands the test of time and this is what we have to convince other people of. A mountbatten Braille Writer for example, its been around for 24 or so years and still in use. I have an iPhone 3GS kicking around here somewhere, when I last powered it up everything worked, granted some of my favourite Apps wouldn't work but Voiceover did, one could use the phone to make phone calls which is exactly what a Mobile Phone is designed for so - if someone can pick one of these devices up for $50.00 or so - then they have a bargain. And thirdly (A Personal point of view) I think too many people expect things to be given to them. Take the Voice Sense in my case I thought it only fair to offer the owner at least something as I realised just how much he'd spent on the equipment. If I'd offered absolutely nothing then he had every right to throw the equipment away so offering the person with the Voice Sense something in return meant we both benefited, the chap had some cash he could put towards his future technological investment and I had the machine I had been dreaming of owning. On 15 Nov 2013, at 1:28 am, Travis Siegel <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Nov 2, 2013, at 6:16 AM, Dane Trethowan wrote: > >> >> I count myself extremely lucky and I don't mind admitting that I just >> happened to be in the very right place at the very right time, there was >> someone I knew who was going to do away with his Voice Sense, he'd switched >> to IOS devices. I asked him would he take some cash rather than throw the >> Voice Sense away so that's the story, someone's trash is someone elses >> treasure, no doubt about it. > > Yeah, and this is one thing I've never understood. Why in the world do folks > just junk older items, even when they're working prefectly well? > I can't tell you how many times I've heard someone say oh, this is old, I > can't use it anymore, or it's old, I got a new one, so this one is useless. > Someone really ought to smack these folks and get them to wake up. > Especially when it comes to adaptive technology. I shutter at the shear > number of adaptive devices that wind up in landfills when they're still > perfectly functional, just because someone doesn't want/need them anymore. > It's a real shame. folks don't think that maybe someome else might want or > need it. Instead of tossing it, folks should really offer it up for others > to purchase, so that someone who can't afford to purchase new stuff could get > a device that will help them out. > Unfortunately though, there's no way to get through to some of these folks, > they assume that since it's older, nobody wants it, or worse yet, they figure > since it didn't cost them anything, it's not worth anything, and so out it > goes. <sigh> > > > ======================================= > > The Techno-Chat E-Mail forum is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus > and worm-free > > To modify your subscription options, please visit for forum's dedicated web > pages located at > http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/techno-chat > > You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Techno-Chat group at > either of the following websites: > > http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/techno-chat/index.html > > Or: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> > you may also subscribe to this list via RSS. The feed is at: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> > > --------------------------------------- ********** Dane Trethowan Skype: grtdane12 Phone US (213) 438-9741 Phone U.K. 01245 79 0598 Phone Australia (03) 9005 8589 Mobile: +61400494862 Fax +61397437954 ======================================= The Techno-Chat E-Mail forum is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free To modify your subscription options, please visit for forum's dedicated web pages located at http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/techno-chat You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Techno-Chat group at either of the following websites: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/techno-chat/index.html Or: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> you may also subscribe to this list via RSS. The feed is at: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> ---------------------------------------
