[gps-talkusers] Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Android tablet
- From: "Baracco, Andrew W" <Andrew.Baracco@xxxxxx>
- To: <gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2014 09:47:45 -0700
The difference between Android 2 years ago and Android today is the difference
between night and day.
Andy
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[mailto:gps-talkusers-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Carter Temm
Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2014 8:46 AM
To: gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [EXTERNAL] [gps-talkusers] Re: Android tablet
Couldn't agree with you more
Sent from my iPhone
> On Jul 8, 2014, at 10:35 AM, "Ray Carette" <ray957719@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I'm glad you folks find android to be accessible cause I know when I
> tried it a couple years ago, it was almost totally non[accessible. In
> fact, the only way to make it accessible wasto purchase mobile speak
> or something like that. Anyway, after all that, I switched to the
> iphone and I am not looking back.
>
>> On 7/8/14, Mike Arrigo <n0oxy@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Yes, android is very accessible, I use it on a daily basis. Anyone
>> who still says android is not blind friendly simply has not given it
>> a chance. Does it work differently than IOS? Yes. Is it just as accessible?
>> Yes.
>> Original message:
>>> These days Android devices are quite accessible.
>>> For example, here is an unboxing of the Samsung Galaxy Tab S that
>>> was released on June 26.
>>> http://www.mysticaccesspodcast.com/audio/mp71samsungunboxing.mp3
>>> Note: just to keep the message on topic, this tablet runs Nearby
>>> Explorer just fine.
>>
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>>>> On 7/8/2014 10:29 AM, Carter Temm wrote:
>>>> Not to mention their devices I'm not accessible either
>>
>>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>>>> On Jul 8, 2014, at 6:51 AM, "Luke French" <nhbostonfan@xxxxxxxxx
>>>> <mailto:nhbostonfan@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>>
>>>>> Hello all, I would have to say that Google is not friendly to
>>>>> blind people. The Google Chrome app is nearly impossible to use
>>>>> with the voice synthesizer. Their Google glass only works for the
>>>>> ride I sorry if you don't have a right eye.
>>
>>>>> Luke
>>
>>>>> On Jul 8, 2014, at 1:53 AM, Ilkka Pirttimaa
>>>>> <ilkka.pirttimaa@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:ilkka.pirttimaa@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>>
>>>>>> I see this "why don't you use Google Maps" question so often,
>>>>>> that I think I need to give my thoughts. I was originally
>>>>>> planning to use Google Maps in BlindSquare, but their license
>>>>>> explicitly says it is not allowed to be used in apps like this. I
>>>>>> tried to contact Google, but it is very hard to get to contact
>>>>>> with them, even I have some business channels there.
>>
>>>>>> So, as a built in map data source, I don't see Google Maps as an
>>>>>> option. They don't have API to get street data in vector form
>>>>>> which is often needed in apps like this. What they provide is map
>>>>>> in graphical form which is not very useful).
>>
>>>>>> Yes, they have possibility to do route plan and search for POI,
>>>>>> but for BlindSquare it is not enough (+there is this license issue).
>>
>>>>>> So, for this reason, Google Maps is provided only as 3rd party
>>>>>> route planning and more detailed map data is coming from
>>>>>> OpenStreetMap and Apple Maps.
>>
>>
>>>>>> On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 2:02 AM, brandon armstrong
>>>>>> <baarmstrong37@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:baarmstrong37@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>>
>>>>>> hello all, I want to weigh in on what mike may said here. you
>>>>>> love foursquare, my point here, please get google maps in the
>>>>>> next version of this app, like we've been asking you to do sense
>>>>>> 1.0 and call it a day. do you know, that we got a bypass here in
>>>>>> my location, after the bypass opened, with in two days of that
>>>>>> road opening, google maps starts telling me turn right on to
>>>>>> state highway 9, where your app and some others keep telling me
>>>>>> to continue on to 190. I'm sorry, but for almost real time
>>>>>> updated map info google maps will be your best way to go verses
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