[access-uk] Re: IPhone Cost
- From: "Howie, Sam" <Sam.Howie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2009 15:50:59 +0100
I suppose we all have a choice in life but like I've said don't think I'll be
paying that amount myself
Sam
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ELEANOR BURKE
Sent: 09 June 2009 15:41
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Subject: [access-uk] Re: IPhone Cost
I pay that at present on Vodafone Sam for my N96.
Eleanor
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From: "Howie, Sam" <Sam.Howie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2009 2:16 PM
Subject: [access-uk] IPhone Cost
> Hi Everyone
> All be it some people may like the idea of the Iphone but the cost has to
> be taken into consideration (approximately £35 a month on an 18 month
> contract) and as far as I'm aware it is still only available on the O2
> network
> Sam
>
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> From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Tristram Llewellyn
> Sent: 09 June 2009 13:34
> To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [access-uk] Re: IPhone
>
> I am not anti-Apple (I own a machine or two and an iPod Touch and a
> regular Mac OS user) but I am unconvinced that a touchscreen can be a
> right interface for someone with no sight whatever. Even magnification
> is problematic on the iPhone/Touch given the size and the fact it is a
> touchscreen. I am also uncertain how what is intended to be in parts a
> gestural interface will work out in practice for those users who cannot
> see at all. Clearly the efforts on the iPhone are an outgrowth of their
> use of OS X (or at least a scaled down versio of it), work to make the
> device speak for use in the gym or GPS navigation and leveraging their
> multi-touch technology to provider a more sophisticated touchscreen
> interface.
>
> As for the pace of development I would say that this is a cost of
> mainstream providers taking on this role as opposed to specialist
> providers. Apple recieves no extra money and therefore have limits on
> the manpower they have to extend into accessibility improvements which
> form only a very small part of their total priority list. Not only this
> but it more or less kills any kind of third party market that may be
> able to drive the pace forward sufficiently for the market of those
> users who depend on those accessibility improvements, particularly as
> they relate to the desktop operating system such as Mac OS.
>
> The development of accessibility on Mac OS can be described as steady
> but slow and there are still things missing from it that Windows users
> take for granted with their favourite accessibility product.
>
> It will take me a little while to absorb the news that has emerged and
> still later before I could try anything out and I think that is where
> the real knowledge will come from rather than the blurb that is
> currently provided.
>
> Regards.
>
> Tristram Llewellyn
> Sight and Sound Technology
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> www.sightandsound.co.uk
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