I agree with much of what has been said on this topic. I love my braille
note, but PDI seems awfully slow at coming out with upgrades. It looks like
we won't even see anything until late this year or even next year and I do
get tired of that it's on our list or wait and see what we will eventually
do with nothing firm ever being stated that PDI seems to spout all of the
time. I know they can't divulge things that they don't want their
competition to know about and possibly out do them on, but at least don't
wait so long between upgrades.
It seems the blind get this a lot in this industry, promises that we wait
for forever.
At 4/3/2004, you wrote:
Hi,
Sorry to those who are stuck on believing that the posts comparing
the BN to the PACMate are meant to do only that, just to compare. I
guess even if I repeat myself here time and again, stubborn fanatics will
continue to be stubborn fanatics--after all, that's what those two words
imply really.
Bob, all of your suggestions for future upgrades are great, and I'm
sure many of us, if not all, agree with you. But notice this sad
reality--they are repeats or rehashes of suggestions we have read for
several months now. I'm sick and tired of reading them as "suggestions
for future upgrades", and I can already hear Jonathan Mosen's probable
response ringing in my ears. I do not know how long you have been
subscribed to this list and how closely you monitor it, but you said
absolutely nothing new. If you check the archives and if possible, the
archives of the old BrailleNote list hosted at Lyris, you will see
suggestions like yours, and frankly, I have read better ones, that were
posted as early as December 2002 as far as I can remember.
That's the point you seem to have been missing. We make suggestions
and wait for months and years, but PDI cannot deliver at a reasonable
pace. The SDK request was first posted two years ago, where is it? The
request for an improved email system was requested as early as version
3.6 and maybe even earlier, and we are now holding our breaths for 5.2,
where is it? The need for an upgrade to KeyWeb's underlying IE 4 was
voiced out last year, even before 5.0 was released, and still no
assurance that it can be addressed because of limitations to the Windows
CE version used or whatever, what then?
The comparison to PACMate was not to declare the BrailleNote dead or
a dinosaur, but was to prove that if another company can do it for their
product, it is reasonable for us to expect similar, not really the same,
progress and development for our beloved BrailleNote, and to let PDI know
that users are aware of this. Stop confusing this intention with your
most dreaded topic of comparing the BrailleNote with
competition. Please. The BrailleNote is far from becoming a dinosaur,
sure. But at this rate, it will be in time and that's what we all--yes,
believe it or not, including me--do not want to see.
Now, if you can think of a new suggestion, post it and I will be
happy to be the first to commend you for coming up with a new one and
joining the long waiting list. Let's play a game--the suggestion that
gets considered the longest, wins!
Cheers,
Kirstyn
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