I would like to point out that if my understanding is correct, charging a subscription for features you previously bought as a one-time purchase is actually against Apple's developer guidelines. This is why, for example, the Weather Gods app charges all new users a subscription for push notifications, but previous users are allowed to have access to push alerts without a subscription as previously agreed upon.
I am curious to see how this unfolds, because it's definitely something that should be reported to Apple if they make our previous purchases null and void. This isn't just idle complaining, this is actually against the iOS developer guidelines—again, if my understanding is correct. Voice Dream Reader has introduced a ton of data tracking as of late too, just check App Privacy Reports to see the domains it's reaching out to. I have loved Voice Dream Reader for over a decade, but I think long-term another solution or app is going to be needed. I don't think dismissing users' complaints here is really appropriate, because the reality is that users agreed upon certain features and paid a substantial fee to access them. It's unreasonable for that to be yanked away with an app update which in some cases may happen automatically. Grant Hardy On Mar 25, 2024, at 9:14 PM, Marco Curralejo <[email protected]> wrote: Lots of complaining on this I’ve got to say. Simple solution, if you don’t want to pay, go and find some other app that fits your needs. If you do, continue to enjoy using an app that works mostly flawlessly and certainly is, in my opinion, worth the $60 per year. Cheers, Marco *From:* [email protected] <[email protected]> *On Behalf Of *Joshua Hendrickson *Sent:* Monday, March 25, 2024 9:11 PM *To:* [email protected] *Subject:* Re: Making everyone pay for voice dream I can’t believe all this negative talk about not wanting to pay $60 per year for voice dream reader. For me, it is one of the best apps out there for reading both ebooks and audio content. I’ll tell you all some of the recent changes the new owners have done for us all. They have recently allowed audio files in M4a format to properly. When you want to change a reading voice for a bookshare book, you now have a search option quickly find the voice you want. You also don’t have to pay for these voices either. You did have to pay around $5 per voice before. So please stop complaining and pay the $60 per year if you can. If people pay the money, think of how much better the app will be. I’ve pcht a lot of time into putting audio books and audio dramas on voice dream reader with iTunes to not pay the $60 price. When we found out that voice dream reader might be charging a subscripttion fee this shouldn’t be a surprise !o anyone. So please if you can, pay the $60!!! Sent from My totally awesome iPhone!! On Mar 25, 2024, at 10:01 PM, Mary Otten <[email protected]> wrote: Thanks for the clarification. I never get audiobooks from books share, so book player I don’t care. Kind of sucks. I still think I should be able to download stuff as long as I don’t try to upgrade. You can always do that with everything else. If I have an apple device for instance, and it’s not getting updates anymore I can still use it. This kind of stinks from that aspect. They shouldn’t cut us off from being able to download anything from Bookshare because we don’t want to pay. What if we don’t give a good bloody damn about whatever they think they’re going to implement that we’re going to pay for. I’m not happy about that. But it’s the best thing out there so far. God knows the garbage from speech central doesn’t get it done. It’s too bad. Sent from my iPhone On Mar 25, 2024, at 7:53 PM, William James <[email protected]> wrote: BookPlayer is an audio only player. It plays zipped files, MP3, M4A, and M4B. You can get it from the following link. <preview.png> [image: image001.png] <https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bookplayer/id1138219998> BookPlayer <https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bookplayer/id1138219998> Plays M4B/M4A/MP3 audiobooks <https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bookplayer/id1138219998> Sent from my iPad Air 5 On Mar 25, 2024, at 7:59 PM, Mary Otten <[email protected]> wrote: I tend to agree with you, Richard. What is book player if you know? I had never heard of bookplayer app. There is no way I’m going to speech Central. It’s just too clunky. If he did what he’s been asked to do and implemented an easy way to download bookshare books right through the app, Then I would possibly reconsider. But I don’t give two figures for all that fancy Voice stuff he’s doing. I’m perfectly happy with what I have now. Mary Sent from my iPhone On Mar 25, 2024, at 4:41 PM, Richard Turner <[email protected]> wrote: I have not updated today. But, if anyone wants to go back and look at what Winston Chen had said when he sold Voice Dream LLC., he made it clear that he would have had to begin charging a subscription to be able to maintain development and he had already started the Mac version as a subscription. $59 a year seems perfectly reasonable to me if you want the app to continue. 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