I guess I tend to take what people and companies say at face value. I
guess I also don't see what the value is in spending energy dissecting
what a company says and speculating what's really going on behind the
scenes. Whether a company announces in July that a product will be
released at the end of August or whether they announce in August it'll
be coming out in mid-September, it'll still be coming out when it comes out.
From my experience, upgrades are quite tricky and hard to test. Who
knows what API changes Apple is making from IOS 7 to IOS 8 and what code
paths KNFB has in it to work well on both versions. Sure, KNFB can be
testing upgrades now with the beta of IOS 8, but how many combinations
of models, memory, other applications and so on can they test. It makes
sense to me that they'd wait until IOS 8 comes out. This gives them more
time to test and it means a lot of people will be upgrading to IOS 8
before installing KNFB, eliminating a lot of potential problems. I seem
to recall a handful of apps had trouble transitioning from IOS 6 to IOS 7.
Companies are damned if they do and damned if they don't. Didn't we have
a discussion on this list after IOS 7 came out that Apple should have
held it off a bit to get more testing in and fix more accessibility
bugs? Apple places a lot on their big events, so they're not going to
slip a IOS release, unless it's a major dead on arrival kind of a bug.
KNFB seems like they're willing to take a hit a bit on postponing their
release, which by the way means delaying their revenue stream, and maybe
they're doing this to get a better and more stable product out the door.
I'm willing to wait a few weeks if it means dealing with fewer issues.
I'm sure KNFB didn't make this decision lightly, and I'm sure they had
some very smart people looking at some numbers and making a very tough
decision.
On 08/30/2014 12:37 PM, Rick Alfaro wrote:
Hi Sieghard.
I tend to agree with you in that it's a lame excuse but it is what it
is. Hopefully it will be worth the wait and price. Personally, I'll be
waiting a while to see what others report. Right now, I'm chomping at
the bit for an iWatch that will hopefully have a decent sounding speaker
and work with VO and Siri.
Best regards,
Rick Alfaro
*From:*viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] *On
Behalf Of *Sieghard Weitzel
*Sent:* Friday, August 29, 2014 10:00 PM
*To:* viphone@googlegroups.com
*Subject:* RE: knfb reader
Hi Jonathan,
Correct, from what I heard iOS 8 is expected to be released to the
public on Wednesday, September 17 followed by the iPhone 6 on Friday the
19^th . I guess we'll find out on Tuesday in a week whether there will
be a 4.7 inch and a 5.5 inch iPhone 6 or if there will only be the 4.7
inch model for now with the larger one to follow later. I also heard
rumours now that an iWatch may be announced on the 9^th as well.
Maybe the expected 13 Megapixel iPhone 6 camera which is rumoured to
actually protrude a bit beyond the thickness of the phone along with
these under the hood changes will make KNFB Reader on an iPhone 6 even
better, but that certainly is not a reason why the app can't be released
for the 5S with iOS 7 unless they are just not ready to release it to
the public in which case they should just say so.
Regards,
Sieghard
*From:*viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] *On
Behalf Of *Jonathan Mosen
*Sent:* Friday, August 29, 2014 4:04 PM
*To:* viphone@googlegroups.com
*Subject:* Re: knfb reader
I believe KNFB are incorrect in thinking that iOS 8 will be released on
or about the 10th.
Apple's event is on the 9th. If Apple's past timetable is followed, and
they have been very consistent in recent years, the Gold master of iOS 8
will be released to developers right after the presentation.
That gives developers a few days to find absolute show stoppers, and
they would have to be absolutely huge, for any change to be made. The
iOS itself is released about a week later. That would make iOS 8 release
day the 17th.
One possible reason for KNFB delaying the release is if they are using
some of the cool new APIs in 8. There are a lot of under the hood
changes to the camera.
Jonathan Mosen
Mosen Consulting
Blindness technology eBooks, tutorials and training
http://Mosen.org
On 30/08/2014, at 9:47 am, Gmail <englishride...@gmail.com
<mailto:englishride...@gmail.com>> wrote:
At first I thought their reason for delaying the app's
release actually held some water, but now that I have read your
message, I agree with you.
Thanks,
Ari
On Aug 29, 2014, at 2:06 PM, Sieghard Weitzel <siegh...@live.ca
<mailto:siegh...@live.ca>> wrote:
Well, that's one way to get another 2 weeks of time. The
argument to wait with the release until iOS 8 is released is in
my opinion just an excuse. KNFB had access to iOS 8 since June 2
and I bet they have tested the app on the various iOS 8 Betas
and that everything works just fine. In any case, if they
release the app the same day as iOS 8 will become available to
the public it hardly gives them time to hear feedback and so on.
Anyhow, just saying,
Regards,
Sieghard
*From:*viphone@googlegroups.com
<mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com>[mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com]*On
Behalf Of*Richard Turner
*Sent:*Friday, August 29, 2014 12:28 PM
*To:*viphone@googlegroups.com <mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com>
*Subject:*Re: knfb reader
I was just about to post this from the KNFB Reading Technology
web site:
Responding to worldwide inquiries, K-NFB Reading Technology and
Sensotec have announced today that the release of the KNFB
Reader iPhone app is being scheduled to coordinate with Apple's
upgrade to its new iOS 8 operating system, expected to occur on
or about September 10, 2014...Read full release here.
http://www.knfbreader.com/pdf/knfb-Reader-Release_8-29-14.pdf
"Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of
education." - Victor Hugo
Sent from my iPhone
On Aug 29, 2014, at 12:16 PM, "Trea Abma" <trea.a...@gmail.com
<mailto:trea.a...@gmail.com>> wrote:
On twitter:
The KNFB Reader iOS app will be released alongside iOS 8 to
insure full compatibility with new
API's.http://knfbreader.com <http://knfbreader.com/>#Apple
#iPHone
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