This is part of the on going patent battle between Samsung and Apple. I doubt they thought too much about the impacts of including this patent in their suit to the blind smart phone users out there. Their end game is probably to get Apple to pay for the rights to use these patents or reach a settlement with Apple to respect each others patents and end this legal action between the two companies.
Besides, you have other smart phone options out there with free built in screen readers, such as Android 4.0 and beyond and the phones running that OS, such as several models from Samsung. On 24/02/13 21:43, BBS wrote: > I also signed the petition. I think it's pretty stupid that Samsung is > trying to take away the thing that helps us get around. I mean, what do > they expect? Do they expect us to go back to phones and computers that > require 3rd party developers to make screen readers for us? I'm not > going back into that direction. I have a Mac and an iPhone and I'm not > giving up any of them just because Samsung doesn't like the fact that we > have a free screen reader already built in. > -- Christopher (CJ) chaltain at Gmail -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
