Hi Alia, Everybody is entitled to their opinion, but I for one am happy to see that by far the majority of people seem to understand that you can't run a business by spending money and not have any come in. I own a retail business and if I sold all the product I have to buy and have in inventory for what I paid for it or for a 5% margin I would be out of business faster than a puppydog can wag its tail.
Tap Tap See already stated that they will release an update within a week which addresses the issue of failed pictures. Will you some time take a picture which comes back with a result but a useless result? Yes, most likely, but on the bright side this may encourage all of us blind folks to ask sighted friends or family members to help us develop our picture taking skills. I think it's totally cool to use other apps, many of us have been doing this all along, but I think if you learn to be good at taking pictures and combine Tap Tap See with other apps then 100 pictures would last you at least a couple of months maybe even 3, 4 or 5 months. This means you may spend anywhere from $4 to $2 or even a bit less per month on this and if easy and reliable recognition is important to you than I don't think that is an outrageous price. Having said this it would be nice if Tap Tap See could offer an unlimited annual package at a subscription cost of say $99, then those who use Tap Tap See a lot have a way to get it for a slightly discounted price and if you were to watch for an iTunes Gift Card promo where you could buy 2 $50 cards for $40 each, you would actually only pay $80 a year or $6.66 a month for unlimited use. I think most people will buy the 100 picture pack and see how long it will take them to use it, I just don't use the app often enough to warrant spending even $5 a month. But I will most definitely buy the 100 pictures for $7.99 so I can continue to use the app and also to support the company and it is my guess the 100 pictures will last me close to half a year; I do really like Talking Goggles a lot of time because quite often I can get a result in video mode very quickly which is enough to tell me what I am trying to identify. Regards, -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of alia robinson Sent: Friday, November 08, 2013 4:31 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Tap TapSee IMO this is insulting. I have never as long as I have been buying blindness products, braille printer in the old days before windows, scanner from edge, my first computer with jaws, dectalk soundcard, laptop for school, you get the idea. Never as a blind user have I felt I was "entitled to freebies! I am talking about a once free app going to subscription service, and stating I think it is overpriced. If you didn't get timed-out pictures, unrecognized images, and just plain wrong info, i.e. my black dog was called a black cat. sometimes when I scan cans I have to take more than one picture, so the 100 pics are impractical, and I don't think I use it enough for the monthly fee. We took a lot of pics mostly for fun, but I'm not spending 120 a year for identifying a few cans for cooking. I'll go to other apps. Alia On Nov 8, 2013, at 2:13 AM, Joanne Chua <[email protected]> wrote: > At the end of the day, It comes to this. Either, some that see reason, > supporting the developer to keep it going, or like some insist, as a > blind user, you are entitle to freebies. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing [email protected]. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing [email protected]. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing [email protected]. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing [email protected]. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing [email protected]. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing [email protected]. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
