Actually, I could agree with you here. Unless someone simply walked in the
door, dropping a handful of units on the table, and asked GW to sell this
unit for him. It must have taken a chunk of time, money and energy - who
knows what else kind of resources - to develop and contract this equipment.
Meanwhile Window-Eyes are loosing out. A few weeks ago, someone called for
certain OCR functionality (the so-called Onscreen OCR) to be build into WE.
And what did we get for an answer? Go home, and write yourself an app (or
script). - Well, what if the resources had been put into effect on the
screenreader? Then maybe people really would have seen the benefit of going
for a PC-based solution; knowing they could rely on their screen reader.
And, if now, they insist on using a small device, there is already several
of them on the market. And that to a lower price. Guess what really has
created this storm of postings today, is that so many of us don't understand
why they have launched this equipment into the market. If the pricing had
been the way, that you could always have bought it for the fun of it
(smile), then it would be a great product. But as things stands, I am quite
bewildered, as to what makes it worth all that much money. Specially so, all
the time, other solutions on the market can be had, for a far lower price.
What would make people go and get it from GW, spending all the extra money?
Loyalty? Guess only time will tell. But I do have a feeling, this is not
going to be the unit they sell at every place they show up.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nimer Jaber" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2011 5:01 PM
Subject: Re: the reading easy price
Uh, Aaron, multiple people have asked the same questions and you're
telling them all to call your sales department? Wow ...
I am an Assistive Technology instructor and for a long time now I have
recommended GW products because of their excellence, price and the service
put out by GW. This has changed. Window-eyes is a terrible product
compared to the free alternatives out there and doesn't even come close to
comparing to something like JAWS. The internet has had issues for over
four years and the system used to render web pages is antiquated and all I
see on this list is that this is going to be fixed in version eight which
will cost even more money just so GW can come close to being relevant, and
not even a product that people will actually buy. I have seen a lot of
work on different scripts that enhance functionality but isn't this just a
bandaid to problems that should have been addressed a long time ago in the
screen reader? Is GWMicro even a relevant and a viable company anymore?
What are the numbers for the people that show up to the trainings? What is
there to even train about when GW's product has so many bugs and lacks
many features that even free screen readers on multiple operating systems
incorporate? Maybe I'm wrong. If I am, can someone show me how I'm wrong?
As for this product, (might as well stay on topic just a bit) I don't see
anyone purchasing this thing. I can get some to most of the features
accomplished with my phone and while the quality may not be as good it's
portable, it's easy to use and above all it doesn't cost 2495 for a basic
unit with six buttons. This is an outrageous price, and it seems to me
like GW is scamming its user base and the public to purchase a product
that Freedom Scientific (as much as I hate to say this) has had for over
two years all in the hope that they can increase their profit margin and
maybe continue to compete. OK, I'm done but I am interested to see how
many people agree and how many disagree and most of all, why. As an
Assistive Tech Instructor, I need to know that the products that I'm going
to put the effort into teaching and supporting are relevant products that
an average person will want to use and is able to afford.
Thanks.
On 11/3/2011 10:46 AM, Aaron Smith wrote:
On 11/3/2011 11:42 AM, David wrote:
The message you Aaron posted, did give little and no answers to most of
these questions;
Our sales department, who wrote the announcements, would be happy to
discuss these and any other questions you have about the product. Feel
free to contact them via [email protected], or even give them a call at
260-489-3671.
Aaron
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