There are plenty of business models where paying a one time fee goes
towards supporting an ongoing service. I paid a one time fee for DVD
Audio Extractor and now I get updates and support for life. You can
purchase TiVo for life with a one time fee. I paid a one time fee for my
iPhone and now I get updates to IOS for no charge. I don't use this MLB
app, but I'm not sure there aren't ongoing costs, such as support,
upgrades, licensing fees and so on.
I suspect that it's a combination of the high cost of image recognition
combined with the relatively low volume of sales such an app targeted at
the blind would generate.
On 11/10/2013 11:14 AM, Steve wrote:
I wish someone would put a stop to this insanity. This is a free
market, you folks have a choice. Pay the price, or don't use a very
useful app. Only a few people seem to understand that the developer
has to pay the people that recognize the images on a per-image basis.
Therefore, paying a one=-time fee for the app has nothing to do with a
reasonable pricing model in this case. It is not the same as paying
for a season's access on MLB where there are no ongoing costs once you
pay for the app.
Also, I take issue with another comment about other developers taking
the blind into consideration in their image recognition program. As
far as I can tell, that particular program requires the assistance of
a sighted person to set up a database, so this is in no way at all
comparable to what Tap Tap See is doing.
Of course, your other option is VizWiz, but it is all dependent on the
type of quality response you get and how long you are willing to wait
before getting a response from volunteers.
As economist Milton Friedman famously said "There ain't no such thing
as a free lunch".
Personally, I don't use Tap Tap See that often, so I am going to be
paying for 100 pictures because it is responsive and generally
accurate. I do hope they can add either some checkboxes or a textbox
to help us tailor the response we get from the Terks.
Steve
----- Original Message -----
*From:* Peter Logan <mailto:[email protected]>
*To:* Vi Phone <mailto:[email protected]>
*Sent:* Sunday, November 10, 2013 8:35 AM
*Subject:* Tap Tap See
It saddens me that the developers have decided to move to what I
consider to be price gouging, just my opinion. It also amazes me that
this community doesn’t seem to mind this time. However, wen the
Seeing Eye GPS came out with their model many on this list were outraged.
Am I in no way asking for something to be free, however if you are a
heavy user of the product and go with the monthly subscription, you
will be paying $120/year, as far as I know that would be the highest
price of any blindness specific app. I would have rather they just go
with a $4.99 or even $6.99 price for the app and call it good. My
most used app, MLB At Bat only cost $19.99/year and I use that
multiple times every day. I would have rather seen a yearly
subscription in that range.
Hopefully they will reconsider the pricing model in the future. It is
an awesome product, however I believe it could be priced better.
Thanks for listening.
Peter
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