they did two things wrong 1 they said current users would be grandfathered in that is not the case now. 2 they didn't give a monthly option or have a lower price for just the iPhone
Dennis Long Sent from my iPhone 15 Pro Max > On Mar 26, 2024, at 1:23 PM, Chris Chaffin <chaffin102...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > What I think is that originally the new owners thought that they would have > enough new subscribers to keep it going, and that is why they originally > stated that current owners did not have to subscribe. But now that a year > has past, they did not get as many new subscribers as they planned, so in > order to keep it going, they are having to make everybody subscribe, even > those owners that existed when they bought the company. > > One thing to keep in mind is that the Mac version has always been a > subscription, and that price is $60 a year. If I remember correctly, Winston > set that price when it was released. All the owners are now doing is > including the iOS app within that subscription. So now for $60, you get both > the iOS and Mac versions. > > I do think Voice Dream is worth the subscription, especially if you are > someone that uses it all the time. I will say that there has been a lot of > updates over the last year. So the new owners are not just letting it sit > and stay as it was when they got it. The only thing is, I do wish they would > give you an option to pay by the month. > > Chris > > >> On Mar 26, 2024, at 12:36 PM, Arnold Schmidt <als5...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I agree that $60 a year is a bit much, but I think people are going to be >> surprised and disappointed at what they can get for alternatives. I admit >> that I have yet to try Dolphin Easy Reader and the Bookshare reader for >> myself, but reading the reviews are not encouraging. It is one thing if a >> few reviewers don't like an app, another when only a few reviews say an app >> is good. There just aren't that many daisy readers out there. I wish >> Bookshare would bring back the reader they had years ago. It was a good >> reader, for a time it actually was better than Voice Dream. But then, Voice >> Dream got better, I got it, and Bookshare dropped their reader of that time. >> Voice Dream does a lot of things really well. >> >> Arnold Schmidt >> >> Sent from Arnold's iPhone S E 3 >> >> On Mar 26, 2024, at 12:16 PM, llump...@austin.rr.com wrote: >> >> They're going to switch to a subscription model for everyone and we either >> like it and pay or don't. >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: viphone@googlegroups.com <viphone@googlegroups.com> On Behalf Of >> Dennis Long >> Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2024 11:12 AM >> To: viphone@googlegroups.com >> Subject: RE: Making everyone pay for voice dream >> >> I agree $20 I might go that. Even that is a might. I just don't use it >> enough. I'm not against paying for apps. I subscribe to weather apps and >> parcel. So clearly I'm not against app subscriptions. This is again is >> more than 50% of the cost of a screen reader. That needs to be pointed out >> to them. Again more than 50% of the cost of a screen reader. That reads my >> computer screen to me and allows me to use my computer. If the company >> thinks people will pay more than 50% of a screen reader subscription they >> truly are nuts. >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: viphone@googlegroups.com <viphone@googlegroups.com> On Behalf Of Ron >> Canazzi >> Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2024 11:57 AM >> To: viphone@googlegroups.com >> Subject: Re: Making everyone pay for voice dream >> >> Hi Group, >> >> I would be willing to pay up to twenty dollars yearly, but this is >> ridiculous. I could afford it, but it is still way too high for an app on an >> Apple device. As mentioned before, the average price of most apps usable >> with IOS devices is between five and ten dollars US. Allowing for the >> smaller market, I could easily pay double yearly, but not sextuplet! >> >> >>>> On 3/26/2024 3:49 AM, Dennis Long wrote: >>> They aren't considering that a large number of blind people can't afford >>> $60 a year. They aren't also considering that a large number of blind >>> people aren't able to find jobs in the USA. More over if it were more >>> reasonably priced maybe and it’s a big maybe. It would be a big maybe >>> because the only reason they would lower the price is they terribly >>> misjudged the market. >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: viphone@googlegroups.com <viphone@googlegroups.com> On Behalf Of >>> regina alvarado >>> Sent: Monday, March 25, 2024 4:17 PM >>> To: Viphone <viphone@googlegroups.com> >>> Subject: Making everyone pay for voice dream >>> >>> Just received a message voice dream is going to cost 59 dollars a year now. >>> A pet peeve of mine is everything requires a subscription. I see nothing in >>> there reasons for this that affects me. So, nice I had it for so long. It >>> was a wonderful app, but I am done with it. As with MBraille I was one of >>> the first to buy it for I think 5 dollars. Makes me want to cry to lose it, >>> but much more important places to put my money. On Social Security with a >>> guide dog and so guess it goes away. 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