Hi Christopher, Thanks for the compliment and I do typically try to look at all things from various points of view and avoid extremes, making statements I can't back up and I try to make sure I point out that I am putting forward a personal opinion when I do say something I know others disagree with.
I am also not sure what Karim meant with his statement about the "guy who said he would never touch an Apple device". I in fact sold him my VictorReader Stream in 2009 when the iPod Touch Third Gen with Voiceover came out. At the time the Booksense had also been recently released and I bought a Booksense XT because I liked the additional features such as built in FM Tuner, Bluetooth support and built-in 4 Gigs of storage. However, when the iPod Touch came out I bought a 64 Gig model and never looked back. A few months later I sold my Booksense as well and a year later, in September 2010 I bought an iPhone 4 and the 4S last October. My HTC with MobileSpeak and MobileGeo went up on BlindBargains.com and found a new home somewhere out in the eastern States and apart from my laptop and my desktops at my business all I have now is an iPhone 4S and it does everything ZI want it to do either beautifully or adequately. One of the things in the "adequately" category would be GPS, but I have no doubt this will improve and be on par or better than MobileGeo in short order.I used to be worried about listening to Daisy Audio Books, but after I bought the iPod Touch I also subscribed to Audible and I happily pay for my books now because he benefits of their awesome selection along with the quality of readers and ease of use is worth it to me and the odd audio book I may get from the CNIB here in Canada on a CD I can easily grab just the MP3 files and convert them to the iTunes audio book format with Chapter and Verse. I continue to say and stand behind my statement that I believe for a blind person in my situation the PC with Windows 7 and Jaws is a better solution than a Mac with Voiceover would be. I have been a Jaws user for 23 years and use it with speech only, never used a braille display and I do stuff like email, browsing, Excel and so on so fast and I think efficiently that I see absolutely zero reason to switch. Windows 7 is stabil and a very good OS and despite all the complaints about Jaws and remarks how bad a piece of software it is, let's not forget that Jaws has been around for 25 years and has continuously evolved and just like Windows become a lot better. I am not a software engineer and most people who say Jaws is bad software probably are not either so I don't think it's so bad, Jaws 13 rarely crashes for me and with a few exceptions it's fast and responsive and I don't begrudge Freedom Scientific the $200 I pay every 2 years to maintain my SMA and get the next 2 major updates and all smaller ones in between, after all, they don't have over 100 Billion of cash like Apple who could afford to keep Voiceover going as a hobby if they wanted and put more people on the project than Freedom Scientific could on Jaws. There will always be a few people on a list with over 1,300 people who are fanatic about a certain product, think it's fun to bash others or simply be negative or contrary in other ways. I rarely find truly new revelations about my iPhone on here, but I do enjoy sharing what I know and I'm glad a lot of people on here think the same way because I could think of about 20 people who, should they leave this list, would make it 80% less useful to all others. Regards, Sieghard -- 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.
