Hi Sabahattin,

You’re welcome.  The interface with the iPhone is definitely worth being 
excited about.  But I came to the conclusion that it didn’t offset the other 
minuses, as you can tell.  I find it strange and ironic that they designed this 
display that is clearly intended to function in the Appleverse, and then tied 
it to a PC for things like updating.  I get that people with iPhones do have 
PCs, but you’d think that they would have made either an iPhone or a Mac 
updating method available.
Cheers,
Donna

> On Jan 10, 2024, at 2:41 PM, 'Sabahattin Gucukoglu' via MacVisionaries 
> <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> wrote:
> 
> Thank you for an excellent review, Donnah.
> 
> I guess unsurprisingly, the part that interests me most is thecombination of 
> iPhone and Activator, since that's clearly the dominant use case, but the 
> assembly sounds rather brittle and then the issue of newer USB-C iphones. I 
> won't be buying any time soon, but I'd be interested to see how this develops.
> 
> Some of the other stuff is rather less inspiring though. Windows is at fault 
> for the USB issues, though presumably that will get fixed, however the 
> requirement to use Windows to update firmware just makes me sad. Again, I 
> hope there's a fix, in some not-too-distant future. The interface sounds 
> rather primitive though, which strikes me as a bit of a red flag seeing as 
> how it's supposed to improve on the iPhone for editing tasks. All the 
> technology in the world can't help if it's not efficient to use for that, and 
> since the whole point is to marry that efficiency with your existing phone's 
> functionality, rather than replacing it, they probably need to improve their 
> software considerably for me to consider switching away from a Focus or any 
> display with stored Braille input capability. Again, I'll be interested to 
> see how others find it after they've done some more work on their software.
> 
> Thanks again for your review. It was very informative.
> 
> Cheers,
> Sabahattin
> 
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