I think in the end, Samsung will find out that you can't put the geni back
into the bottle. Blind people have had a big taste of what accessibility
can be like for all when it's designed and built in from the ground up and
not just on specific models and all that aside, it's just the right thing to
do. Yamaha is taking their new digital keyboards touch screen and are
totally ignoring the protests of blind musicians. Amazing how one company
can be so thick headed and another making every effort to brake down the
accessibility barriers.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher Chaltain" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2013 8:04 PM
Subject: Re: OT: Change.Org Petition Samsung Attack On Vlind
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
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