Hi Sabahattin, I can only speak for myself on this. I think the secret sauce, as you put it, is the laziness of the user. I have no doubt that, with a good deal of effort, as well as with the possible assistance of sighted friends/family, I could have learned to use Prizmo/text grabber/whatever well enough to obtain decent images. I just didn't want to put the effort in and, given that I am totally blind and have been so from birth, probably end up buying a stand and using the app only when absolutely necessary. Given the fact that I had a scanner for some things, could get along without some things, the results I would get weren't as good as a scanner... You get the idea. I didn't, to adapt Rex Stout, for the same reason I don't walk across the continent to dip my toe in the pacific ocean. The expense and effort are too much for the reward. With the KNFB, the effort is minimal, and the reward either the same as, or greater than, using Prizmo. $100 is hard to get, but it's not hard in the same way as spending a few hours with Prizmo and a sighted person is hard, particularly when the results of doing so are not guaranteed. With the KNFB's field of view report and its tilt guidance, you don't have to think and work to get a decent picture, or at least a picture telling you enough to be getting on with. For me, it's that simple. Two more small points. First, in case it isn't obvious, I don't use the word laziness in criticism. Work is admirable, but reading shouldn't be a painful process. As blind people we put up with quite a bit more effort to do certain things. Some of that is justified, some isn't, but I see no reason not to chop off some labour if I can. Secondly, I'm not saying that the KNFB app is in any way a simple re-working of other apps at a higher price. Thought has gone into it, if not research, and the fact that a sighted person can take a similarly good or better picture with whatever other app is out there doesn't mean the quality of the work by the KNFB folks is any less. Aman
On 9/20/14, Sabahattin Gucukoglu <listse...@me.com> wrote: > All right. Yes, it's all very wonderful > > The question is: why? Why have all the other apps failed? What's the magic > sauce? You know me--well, you do now, anyway--that I'm not going to be > happy unless I've established that £69 was worth paying. I'm still not > quite convinced that it is, yet. £69 is a lot of money for an iOS app, and > my first thought while reading the description was, "Yeah, highly > anticipated and bloody expensive!" Anybody have answers, or even > hypotheses? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
