I have never seen an issue with paying a monthly fee for something like tap tap see. You are right, company's finances only last as long as their revenue keeps coming. I would pay a monthly fee for tap tap see. After all, devices that help identify stuff can cost over a thousand dollars at times.
Best, From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Alan Paganelli Sent: Monday, November 11, 2013 6:49 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Mechanical Turk, CamFind, TapTapSee and developers responsibilities -was- Re: TapTapSee Ameripage? By any chance could that have been Alan Sent from my iPhone 5s On Nov 11, 2013, at 6:12 PM, David Chittenden <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote:I Back in the mid 90's, I purchased a pager service with included voice was mail for my business. The pager service was $6 per month plus $4 per month for the voice mail. However, the company was running a new subscriber special for involved with them.$150 for lifetime service. This was at the time just before cell phones started becoming popular. Well, lifetime service, including voice mail, for $150, wow, what a bargain. I would pay it off in 15 months and never need to worry about paying for that service again. After 15 months of service, I broke even. After 18 months of service, the company folded. Cellphone service was becoming much more popular, so people were not using voicemail pagers as much anymore. However, the company still had to pay for the continuing costs of the voicemail service, and they could not meet their costs. So, I received 3 free months of service before I needed to find another system. I also needed to change all my promotional materials to a new phone number since I lost the pager number when the company went out of business. Lifetime means lifetime of the service or lifetime of the company, and the company must have revenue streams to cover their costs. So, when people complain about how unfair it is for a company to pass on their ongoing costs, remember that the alternative may well be end of service.. Then, consider the following. VizWiz is a project of a certain university in the US. I believe it is Georgia Tech, but it has been a couple years since I read information about it, so I may well be completely wrong about which university. VizWiz uses volunteers to identify pictures. However, they still have computer network and routing charges which they must pay. The US government is reducing funding to universities. I wonder how much longer VizWiz will continue running. We already know that Talking Goggles ceased functioning once already, for several months, because of some conflict with Google. Just a few things to think about when one starts feeling frustrated about prices of ongoing services. David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA Email: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing [email protected] <mailto:[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] <mailto:[email protected]> . Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing [email protected] <mailto:[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] <mailto:[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.
