Hi Dane Yes I see where you are coming from, I don't have much use for bluetooth regarding an mp3 or daisy player such as the vr stream but to have built in bluetooth for earphones would have been nice, I was one who requested it but I think I was in a minority. I do use bluetooth on my mobile phones, for pairing the phones etc and have unsuccessfully tried to link a bluetooth keyboard but have ordered a different one so don't give up that easily. I think humanware should give us the choice, whether they will incorporate bluetooth into a future product is anyone's guess, they will have to do something good otherwise they will lose out to the market again, when the vr stream was first released there was not many similar players but now you have many more and some of them are better in their own way but it depends on what you require. I think they had to bring out the new stream mark 2 rather quickly to keep the market otherwise many people would have gone away from humanware products in favour of say I devices or similar gadgets which can do much more in their own way. Again it is personal choice. What will come after stream mark 2 has gone the whole way as it will inevitably do in perhaps 5 or more years time, there will be much different demand. It is good that stream mark 2 has the wifi so there is several options as to what they can put that to use with. So far it is just internet radio for me in the uk and Europe and some book services in the states but of course for me they are not available. They will add more features in time.
Regards Adrien -----Original Message----- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan Sent: Friday, June 06, 2014 4:38 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Different Roads For Humanware and Hims Inc Hi Adrien, I've changed the subject line to better suit the discussion. I didn't know that a survey was done so thanks for pointing this out. I can see how a lot of people wouldn't have rated Bluetooth as being critical to them but really that does illustrate more than anything to me just how Human Beware actually work, that company doesn't really want to market to people in the real world it seems. For example, those of us who have been using mobile phones over the last 10 years now take Bluetooth for granted thus we buy the appropriate equipment such as speakers, hands free kits, keyboards, headphones and the like to take full advantage of it. Hims Inc obviously want to market their products far and wide to help those who need good accessibility live as independent life as is possible and - wherever possible - integrate into a full working environment and use - wherever possible - all the tools that are available in the mainstream. I don't have any problems with the approach that Human Beware takes but its not what I want, I want to move ahead and make things as smooth and as uncomplicated as is possible whereas - with the other approach Human Beware takes - doing surveys and just making products specific to survey needs for their blind clients - means some isolation from the real world of changing technology, again its up to the user what road he/she chooses to travel. On 6 Jun 2014, at 11:54 pm, Adrien Collins <adriencollins22...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Dane > > I don't know if you know, last year sometime humanware did a > survey of what the users of the vr stream wanted, I think > there was more demand for wifi than bluetooth, I think > bluetooth would mean another hardware up-grade, I am not > sure. I think bluetooth would have been great but as we can > use an adapter for listening to bluetooth earphones, it is > not much of a problem, not for me in any case. > > Regards > > Adrien ********** Dane Trethowan Skype: grtdane12 Phone US (213) 438-9741 Phone U.K. 01245 79 0598 Phone Australia (03) 9005 8589 Mobile: +61400494862 faceTime +61400494862 Fax +61397437954 Twitter: @grtdane I use BullGuard to keep my computer clean. Try BullGuard for free: www.bullguard.com
