This is, in fact, my only complaint about the Talks registration system. Over the last couple of years, I've owned around 7 Symbian phones, which if added together, works out that I'd be paying a lot more to transfer my licence than I did for Talks originally, which is one of the reasons why I switched to the iPhone.
On 12/03/2011, John Farley <j.far...@btinternet.com> wrote: > Hi Chris, > > I have no problem paying the £150 for the Talks licence itself. I fully > understand the level of resource required by the developers in producing and > marketing the product. It is good value in a very small marketplace. Of > course, that does not take away the fact the blind people have to pay this > extra cost for something everybody else does not need to. That is not a > fault of the development companies, who have to make a living. I guess that > could be viewed as a DLA issue. > > Equally, when there is a significant upgrade to Talks I have no problem with > paying for an upgraded licence. > > I do, however, find the £50 for a licence transfer an issue. > > We have already paid for a licence to use Talks. > The transfer of the licence from one phone to another is required to avoid, > or at least limit, piracy of their software, which is fully understandable . > > Talknav do provide a simple and easy means of transferring the licence. > > It is done without human intervention, in most cases, and its real on-going > cost to Talknav and Nuance is minimal. The development of the Ap to do that > should not have been a complex task in these days of tools to assist in > "shopping" utilities. > > I really think that the price of the transfer should bear some relationship > to the cost of it. After all, we are only paying for the privilege of moving > a licence we have already paid for to another phone, which we have also paid > for by one means or another. > > I really do believe that in the fully automated world we live in that this > fee should be reduced. > Clearly, I do not know if the level of the fee is set by Nuance or the > dealership network. > > > > > Regards, John > > John Farley > > Personal Contact Work contact > E-Mail: j.far...@btinternet.com john.far...@saic.com > > -----Original Message----- > From: talks-boun...@talksusers.com [mailto:talks-boun...@talksusers.com] On > Behalf Of chris hallsworth > Sent: 12 March 2011 17:44 > To: Talks Mailing List > Subject: [Talks] A plug > > Hello all. > Just had an e-mail privately from someone offering 50% off my next Talks > license. No thanks, I will get it from www.talknav.com. I don't mind paying > the £50 but I do mind being involved in what could be a scam. So please do > the same guys. Not knocking anybody here but you just never know. There are > dodgy people in this world who will do anything with your money. So go for > the real deal please. Use www.talknav.com and you will get your license > within minutes, 24 hours a day 7 days a week 365 days a year. > Take care. > -- > > Chris Hallsworth > _______________________________________________ > Talks mailing list > Talks@talksusers.com > http://lists.talksusers.com/mailman/listinfo/talks > > Hosting of this list provided courtesy of: > eHosting Limited: http://www.ehosting.com/ and Talknav Inc. > http://www.talknav.net/ > > _______________________________________________ > Talks mailing list > Talks@talksusers.com > http://lists.talksusers.com/mailman/listinfo/talks > > Hosting of this list provided courtesy of: > eHosting Limited: http://www.ehosting.com/ > and > Talknav Inc. http://www.talknav.net/ > -- Elliott. Contact Info: Skype: bigboy11111 MSN/Windows Live: elliottabar...@hotmail.co.uk Google Talk: elliottabar...@googlemail.com Jabber: elliottabar...@jabber.org AIM Screen Name: elliottabarnes Website: http://ElliottB.net/ Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/elliott94 Live Journal: http://elliott94.LiveJournal.com/ Last.fm Profile: http://www.last.fm/user/elliottbarnes Facebook: http://facebook.com/elliott94 _______________________________________________ Talks mailing list Talks@talksusers.com http://lists.talksusers.com/mailman/listinfo/talks Hosting of this list provided courtesy of: eHosting Limited: http://www.ehosting.com/ and Talknav Inc. http://www.talknav.net/
