Re: Why do so many blindies bash android?
The issue is one of software patents. The reason braille support on something like the Touch is so good is because the braille manager is custom, probably licensed from Duxbury. You know, the company that still charges $600 for a braille translation software, never mind the fact Aph's is trying to make more of that free (refer to Braille Blaster for an example). Duxbury has held the license over braille translation technology for who knows how long, and while this doesn't apply to every software patent, when there's next to no competition, usually the open source attempts are inferior at best just because there's nothing else available. It's the same way with OCR (minus the OCR getting into Google and Microsoft products), the two patented OCR's, at least the major ones, are Kurzweil and Fine-reader, and I guess you can count Omney Page as well. Fighting software patents almost never ends well for open source developers, with obvious exceptions.
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