Re: Gwconnect's Dead. Thanks a ton, Window Eyes.
Why they charge so much money for the products is unknown to me. My issue is that people are talking like they have some ruling over GW Micro. Again if Facebook were not accessible, and required a client that would be a different story. As it is now though, facebook is completely accessible, so GW Social eyes has to be looked at as just another company trying to make money. It's certainly true that what they're asking is quite high being that it is a recurring payment but there's nothing that can be done about that. People will just have to use the already accessible facebook site, or a different client.
Back to the Skype thing. Microsoft again gave huge warning that the Skype Kit was about to be stopped. Probably about a year. There were dates when it was supposed to stop but it never did. People decided to ignore these warnings, and microsoft did finally pull the plug. This isn't the fault of GW Connect. Personally the only thing I'd say they were at faul t for was charging for gw connect even after the first warning was issued. Sure there were other clients that used it, and the supporters of those clients are probably going through this exact same conversation right now.
Regardless of which client people use, they run the risk of it breaking, or no longer being supported since they are not officially created by the owning company. Facebook, for example has quite a number of clients so the risk of them cutting off their access to the service is probably pretty low. On the other hand, how many Skype clients do you see regularly. I can only think of 2, them being the two clients that try to provide an alternate accessible interface. The majority of other clients for Skype were created by Microsoft. for iOS, Linux, ETC. These are official clients supported so they probably won't be going anywhere. I don't know why they dropped Skype Kit. Maybe because it wasn't being used enough, or maybe because they want everyone to use the official skype client. Either way. You can't undo it by yelling at GW Micro, nor Microsoft. People will just have to learn the real interfaces to these services, that everyone else has to use and that can be used by everyone just fine.
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