Hi guys, I have to admit, when I read this, the sweat started pouring and the hart started thumping. It was better than my third cup of coffee in the morning which I'm still looking forward to with some anticipation, smiles. Speaking of which, one sec while I go pour the second one...
OK, So here's why I won't be tossing my mobile speak pocket licence in the trash any time soon. First, I'm a scronnie, crabbie, and none too good-looking blind man. An IPhone won't get me more girls, put 10 pounds of muscle on me in exactly the right preportions, or make me a nicer person. So forget it for the time being at least. So far, we have no braille display support. I haven't read anything about a fully featured gps solution for the IPhone which I have to have, or a brf reader which I don't have to have, but will use on ocasion. So it's really exciting to see the support coming along. I'd love to fly down to the apple store and play with one for half an hour. But I really use braille on my phone, and I really use a gps system, and I won't be replacing my current set up until these features are tested and true. So forgetting all the software you don't get, look at what you do get... ITunes. You need ITunes to sync your calendar and contacts? ...seriously? What happened to ISync? Forget it. I can't wait to get rid of my IPod, because the software I tried to replace ITunes for syncing my music doesn't work and I'm sick of the whole mess. Why would I want to buy another device that forces me to ITunes to sync my calendar and contacts? No thank you. ITunes is getting the old command option delete as soon as this IPod is gone. Not that I have anything against the IPod. It's a beautiful machine. My only problems with it are that it dumps my library every time the battery dies, and ITunes crashes whenever it tries to sync. Oh, and ITunes doesn't update my library properly, and it won't let me change the settings for ripping/encoding cd's, and it corupts my library every three months or so and makes me start all over again, and it fills my screen with all kinds of clutter I don't need, and Oh yeh, I generally hate being forced into using software that I don't like... Fwew! So basicly I'll wait till I can have the functionality that I have on my I-Paq, especially gps navigation, braille support, and copy and paste file transfers. Another thing the IPhone didn't have previously which I hope they've fixed now is cdma support. It's got to have cdma support to be really viable here where CDMA is king. I'm using gsm, and would be more ore less happy with it if my carrier didn't lie to me, price gouge me, and go behind my back at every turn. I am counting down the days left on my contract so I can cut my rediculous sell phone bill. There are way more CDMA carriers here than gsm though, in fact there are only two gsm carriers here and they are both owned by the same company which is universally hated here. It's not just me this time. So, we have to have cdma support if we want to make the IPhone attractive to the %75 of us who don't use a gsm carrier here in ontario, and probably the rest of canada as well. Right now, the only supported platform that runs on CDMA unless the new IPhone comes with CDMA support is windows mobile and mobile speak pocket/smartphone. So that's what technology companies here are going to keep selling. When orator and the blackberry support comes it's going to be CDMA supported as well, and so we might go with that for people who don't want advanced screen reader features. It is nice to see the stride finally taken in this area though. Apple accessibility is making finominal products, but the detracters will never stop complaining that this that or the other device isn't accessible, so Apple must be falling behind on it's committments or they aren't really serious. It's not for me, but I bet a number of people who don't mind gsm carriers are going to be thrilled and it would be fun to get one for demo purposes. Have fun, erik burggraaf A+ sertified technician and user support consultant. Phone: 888-255-5194 Email: e...@erik-burggraaf.com On 8-Jun-09, at 4:41 PM, ben mustill-rose wrote: > > Read. > http://www.apple.com/accessibility/iphone/vision.html > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
