I agree. In this space we can vote with our wallets. If an app is worth it to yu personally, blind specific or not, you buy it, if not worth the price tag, we simply move on.
Rick -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Scott Howell Sent: Friday, July 13, 2012 4:44 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: AccessNote AFB's New Notetaker for your IOS Device Stop!!!! GUys I think you are worrying a little to much. Hey the fact is some of these "blindness" organizations see a cash cow standing in the field of users and they want to be fed. The thing you need to keep in mind is there are lots of cows to feed and the best part is you get to choose the cow. Me I'm going to feed the one that gives me the best steak. Hell there are apps that cost twice this much and they are not "blind specific." I understand the concerns, but I really think you will find that nothing will change in this space with respect to accessibility. I would be concerned if these blind-specific apps started to push the idea to developers that we as a community can't live with anything other than these specialized apps. You know I just don't see that happening. :) I think we're going to be fine. :) On Jul 13, 2012, at 9:02 AM, Krister Ekstrom <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm not frightened of the app itself, i'm frightened of the possibility of the I devices becoming yet another case of us blind folks having to go through special channels to by apps and get help and support for them and having to pay huge amounts of money to do so instead of being able to use the I device as any sighted person would. After all the I device is an off-the-shelf product with accessibility built right in, and that's how i want it to be, i want to be able to get help from an app store or a developer or a standard support channel not through blindness specific channels, but that's only me of course. > /Krister -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. 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/viphone?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. 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/viphone?hl=en.
