Hi,
You, yourself stated:
"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".
I have to assume that you were not aware of your fun costing the
developers
money. You certainly weren't the only one taking pictures for fun and
now,
the fun is over and we have to pay for a service that is well worth it.
The
developers paid for a whole year while we tested their app and, now that
we
have done our testing and know what the app is worth, its only fair that
we
take on the responsibility of paying for the service.
Just a personal opinion
Ron & Danvers
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Of Sieghard Weitzel
Sent: Friday, November 08, 2013 1:07 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: Tap TapSee
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,
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From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On
Behalf
Of alia robinson
Sent: Friday, November 08, 2013 4:31 AM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
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 <shuang.an...@gmail.com> 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.
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