Re: A little off topic, yet maybe relevant to some
Oh wow, had no idea they made apps for other operating systems as well, but never used them after I switched to the mac platform. I did a tryal subscription when I still used my windows machine, and loved it, and was debating over whether or not to get a paid subscription, but never did it. On Nov 22, 2014, at 11:34 PM, Devin Prater d.pra...@me.com wrote: Wow. That’s really a shame. The programmer worked so, so hard! He made apps for the mac, iOS, Android, and System access. Sure it wasn’t all that good, but the services offered, gosh it was the first time I ever heard described programming! On Nov 22, 2014, at 1:22 AM, Pamela Francis gypsykitt...@gmail.com wrote: I follow their Twitter feed. Once they realized news had spread like wildfire, they decided to defend themselves as if they were a3 year old child. You cannot tell me five people are going to depart right before the holidays under good terms. As much listenership as they have developed around the world it is rather disingenuous of them not to give an explanation. After they saw the firestorm on their Twitter feed, they said they would come out with some sort of a lame blog post. After the way they handle the Twitter feed, there is no way I can believe anything a blog post could say. Pam Francis On Nov 21, 2014, at 11:57 PM, Joe Quinn jdawg1...@gmail.com wrote: Here it is: Serotek, the makers of the System Access screen reader and the company behind the Serotalk POdcast Network, has parted ways with the majority of their staf, leaving the future of the company in doubt. Those losing their jobs include Buddy Brannan, Ricky ENger, Lisa Salinger, Joe Steinkamp, and Richard Wells. Steinkamp and Enger were let go last week while the other three announced their departures earlier on Friday. The staff members let go produced and participated in many popular podcasts including The SeroTalk Podcast, Triple-Click Home, That Android Show, and End of line among others. This leaves a bare-bones staff including long-time programmer Matt Campbell and producer Jamie Pauls who remain with the company, at least for the moment. We've reached out to Serotek for comment, and inquired about the future of the company and their software products and will post more if we hear back. We know a lot of you might like to post your memories, comments, or well wishes to those who have departed. Feel free to do this in the comments. Update to clarify that some of the 5 may have officially resigned. That being said, it's unlikely this was done under favorable terms. The end result is still the same. Sent from my iPhone On Nov 21, 2014, at 11:45 PM, Hank Smith, and Seeing-eye dog Iona hank.smith...@gmail.com wrote: can you please post the link to the article? On 11/21/2014 10:26 PM, Pamela Francis wrote: Hello folks, For those who don't know and our listeners to the Serotalk podcast, their main team has been fired. If you follow blind bargains on Twitter, they have the article posted there. There is nothing on the Serotalk page or the Serotek page to say anything about the most recent move. Truly a shame. Those guys had good chemistry. You would never know they were working from across the country. If you subscribe to any of their services, you're likely to get less support now than you ever did. I hope it doesn't mean the beginning of the end for those people. As hard as their founder worked to create it into the company it has been. Pam Francis -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group
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Wow! That's quite a shame. System Access is a good screenreader and I would hate to see Serotek go belly up and lose those resources that SA and SamNet have. Shawn Sent From My White MacBook On Nov 22, 2014, at 1:22 AM, Pamela Francis gypsykitt...@gmail.com wrote: I follow their Twitter feed. Once they realized news had spread like wildfire, they decided to defend themselves as if they were a3 year old child. You cannot tell me five people are going to depart right before the holidays under good terms. As much listenership as they have developed around the world it is rather disingenuous of them not to give an explanation. After they saw the firestorm on their Twitter feed, they said they would come out with some sort of a lame blog post. After the way they handle the Twitter feed, there is no way I can believe anything a blog post could say. Pam Francis On Nov 21, 2014, at 11:57 PM, Joe Quinn jdawg1...@gmail.com wrote: Here it is: Serotek, the makers of the System Access screen reader and the company behind the Serotalk POdcast Network, has parted ways with the majority of their staf, leaving the future of the company in doubt. Those losing their jobs include Buddy Brannan, Ricky ENger, Lisa Salinger, Joe Steinkamp, and Richard Wells. Steinkamp and Enger were let go last week while the other three announced their departures earlier on Friday. The staff members let go produced and participated in many popular podcasts including The SeroTalk Podcast, Triple-Click Home, That Android Show, and End of line among others. This leaves a bare-bones staff including long-time programmer Matt Campbell and producer Jamie Pauls who remain with the company, at least for the moment. We've reached out to Serotek for comment, and inquired about the future of the company and their software products and will post more if we hear back. We know a lot of you might like to post your memories, comments, or well wishes to those who have departed. Feel free to do this in the comments. Update to clarify that some of the 5 may have officially resigned. That being said, it's unlikely this was done under favorable terms. The end result is still the same. Sent from my iPhone On Nov 21, 2014, at 11:45 PM, Hank Smith, and Seeing-eye dog Iona hank.smith...@gmail.com wrote: can you please post the link to the article? On 11/21/2014 10:26 PM, Pamela Francis wrote: Hello folks, For those who don't know and our listeners to the Serotalk podcast, their main team has been fired. If you follow blind bargains on Twitter, they have the article posted there. There is nothing on the Serotalk page or the Serotek page to say anything about the most recent move. Truly a shame. Those guys had good chemistry. You would never know they were working from across the country. If you subscribe to any of their services, you're likely to get less support now than you ever did. I hope it doesn't mean the beginning of the end for those people. As hard as their founder worked to create it into the company it has been. Pam Francis -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: A little off topic, yet maybe relevant to some
As a longtime paid subscriber of the mobile network, I am shocked and saddened by this announcement. As myself, like many others depend on their service for our email and other content in the blindness community, including DocuScan plus, iBlink radio, etc., I would surely hate to see this company go bottoms up. If it weren’t for all of us in the blindness community, this company would not exist, and for the money we pay them for subscriptions, we as paying subscribers deserve an explanation for this. On Nov 22, 2014, at 4:36 AM, Shawn Krasniuk bbssh...@icloud.com wrote: Wow! That's quite a shame. System Access is a good screenreader and I would hate to see Serotek go belly up and lose those resources that SA and SamNet have. Shawn Sent From My White MacBook On Nov 22, 2014, at 1:22 AM, Pamela Francis gypsykitt...@gmail.com wrote: I follow their Twitter feed. Once they realized news had spread like wildfire, they decided to defend themselves as if they were a3 year old child. You cannot tell me five people are going to depart right before the holidays under good terms. As much listenership as they have developed around the world it is rather disingenuous of them not to give an explanation. After they saw the firestorm on their Twitter feed, they said they would come out with some sort of a lame blog post. After the way they handle the Twitter feed, there is no way I can believe anything a blog post could say. Pam Francis On Nov 21, 2014, at 11:57 PM, Joe Quinn jdawg1...@gmail.com wrote: Here it is: Serotek, the makers of the System Access screen reader and the company behind the Serotalk POdcast Network, has parted ways with the majority of their staf, leaving the future of the company in doubt. Those losing their jobs include Buddy Brannan, Ricky ENger, Lisa Salinger, Joe Steinkamp, and Richard Wells. Steinkamp and Enger were let go last week while the other three announced their departures earlier on Friday. The staff members let go produced and participated in many popular podcasts including The SeroTalk Podcast, Triple-Click Home, That Android Show, and End of line among others. This leaves a bare-bones staff including long-time programmer Matt Campbell and producer Jamie Pauls who remain with the company, at least for the moment. We've reached out to Serotek for comment, and inquired about the future of the company and their software products and will post more if we hear back. We know a lot of you might like to post your memories, comments, or well wishes to those who have departed. Feel free to do this in the comments. Update to clarify that some of the 5 may have officially resigned. That being said, it's unlikely this was done under favorable terms. The end result is still the same. Sent from my iPhone On Nov 21, 2014, at 11:45 PM, Hank Smith, and Seeing-eye dog Iona hank.smith...@gmail.com wrote: can you please post the link to the article? On 11/21/2014 10:26 PM, Pamela Francis wrote: Hello folks, For those who don't know and our listeners to the Serotalk podcast, their main team has been fired. If you follow blind bargains on Twitter, they have the article posted there. There is nothing on the Serotalk page or the Serotek page to say anything about the most recent move. Truly a shame. Those guys had good chemistry. You would never know they were working from across the country. If you subscribe to any of their services, you're likely to get less support now than you ever did. I hope it doesn't mean the beginning of the end for those people. As hard as their founder worked to create it into the company it has been. Pam Francis -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more
Re: A little off topic, yet maybe relevant to some
That doesn't make sense; they made great software and other services to go along with it so don't understand why they're splitting up all of a sudden. Sent from my iPhone On Nov 22, 2014, at 12:57 AM, Joe Quinn jdawg1...@gmail.com wrote: Here it is: Serotek, the makers of the System Access screen reader and the company behind the Serotalk POdcast Network, has parted ways with the majority of their staf, leaving the future of the company in doubt. Those losing their jobs include Buddy Brannan, Ricky ENger, Lisa Salinger, Joe Steinkamp, and Richard Wells. Steinkamp and Enger were let go last week while the other three announced their departures earlier on Friday. The staff members let go produced and participated in many popular podcasts including The SeroTalk Podcast, Triple-Click Home, That Android Show, and End of line among others. This leaves a bare-bones staff including long-time programmer Matt Campbell and producer Jamie Pauls who remain with the company, at least for the moment. We've reached out to Serotek for comment, and inquired about the future of the company and their software products and will post more if we hear back. We know a lot of you might like to post your memories, comments, or well wishes to those who have departed. Feel free to do this in the comments. Update to clarify that some of the 5 may have officially resigned. That being said, it's unlikely this was done under favorable terms. The end result is still the same. Sent from my iPhone On Nov 21, 2014, at 11:45 PM, Hank Smith, and Seeing-eye dog Iona hank.smith...@gmail.com wrote: can you please post the link to the article? On 11/21/2014 10:26 PM, Pamela Francis wrote: Hello folks, For those who don't know and our listeners to the Serotalk podcast, their main team has been fired. If you follow blind bargains on Twitter, they have the article posted there. There is nothing on the Serotalk page or the Serotek page to say anything about the most recent move. Truly a shame. Those guys had good chemistry. You would never know they were working from across the country. If you subscribe to any of their services, you're likely to get less support now than you ever did. I hope it doesn't mean the beginning of the end for those people. As hard as their founder worked to create it into the company it has been. Pam Francis -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: A little off topic, yet maybe relevant to some
What is truly sad, is they have risen to be the beacon of convention coverage and or A T news bragging about how many followers they had, yet are willing in the wink of an eye to pull the rug out from under all of those people who have come to depend on them. Mike Calvo, their founder, is blind. He left the company. Their current CEO is sighted. It's no skin off of his nose to close the door on a resource that many have come to depend on. Though they have sworn their employees to secrecy, it sounds to me like they have become more mercenary with the inability to deliver. I'll bet they didn't bother to send an email to their paying subscribers letting them know the service was going to get axed if in fact that happens. They didn't count on blind bargains printing their story. In order to save face they feel as if they have to come out with a lame blog explanation. That in my opinion is 100% garbage. You wanted to be a big boy company accepting all the big boy accolades? Put on your big boy pants, face the music. Do a podcast. Bring everyone back, allow them all to explain why they left with no holes barred. Pam Francis On Nov 22, 2014, at 12:19 PM, Jessica Miss junglebookfa...@gmail.com wrote: That doesn't make sense; they made great software and other services to go along with it so don't understand why they're splitting up all of a sudden. Sent from my iPhone On Nov 22, 2014, at 12:57 AM, Joe Quinn jdawg1...@gmail.com wrote: Here it is: Serotek, the makers of the System Access screen reader and the company behind the Serotalk POdcast Network, has parted ways with the majority of their staf, leaving the future of the company in doubt. Those losing their jobs include Buddy Brannan, Ricky ENger, Lisa Salinger, Joe Steinkamp, and Richard Wells. Steinkamp and Enger were let go last week while the other three announced their departures earlier on Friday. The staff members let go produced and participated in many popular podcasts including The SeroTalk Podcast, Triple-Click Home, That Android Show, and End of line among others. This leaves a bare-bones staff including long-time programmer Matt Campbell and producer Jamie Pauls who remain with the company, at least for the moment. We've reached out to Serotek for comment, and inquired about the future of the company and their software products and will post more if we hear back. We know a lot of you might like to post your memories, comments, or well wishes to those who have departed. Feel free to do this in the comments. Update to clarify that some of the 5 may have officially resigned. That being said, it's unlikely this was done under favorable terms. The end result is still the same. Sent from my iPhone On Nov 21, 2014, at 11:45 PM, Hank Smith, and Seeing-eye dog Iona hank.smith...@gmail.com wrote: can you please post the link to the article? On 11/21/2014 10:26 PM, Pamela Francis wrote: Hello folks, For those who don't know and our listeners to the Serotalk podcast, their main team has been fired. If you follow blind bargains on Twitter, they have the article posted there. There is nothing on the Serotalk page or the Serotek page to say anything about the most recent move. Truly a shame. Those guys had good chemistry. You would never know they were working from across the country. If you subscribe to any of their services, you're likely to get less support now than you ever did. I hope it doesn't mean the beginning of the end for those people. As hard as their founder worked to create it into the company it has been. Pam Francis -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you
Re: A little off topic, yet maybe relevant to some
It's probably simple. They probably ran out of money. I don't think very many people use their screen reader. And I have no idea how many are on Sam nett. I know I am. I have most of the year left on a subscription. It is really too bad. I will certainly miss them. And I do wish the company would be a little bit forthcoming about what is going on there. But I won't hold my breath. Mary Sent from my iPhone On Nov 22, 2014, at 10:19 AM, Jessica Miss junglebookfa...@gmail.com wrote: That doesn't make sense; they made great software and other services to go along with it so don't understand why they're splitting up all of a sudden. Sent from my iPhone On Nov 22, 2014, at 12:57 AM, Joe Quinn jdawg1...@gmail.com wrote: Here it is: Serotek, the makers of the System Access screen reader and the company behind the Serotalk POdcast Network, has parted ways with the majority of their staf, leaving the future of the company in doubt. Those losing their jobs include Buddy Brannan, Ricky ENger, Lisa Salinger, Joe Steinkamp, and Richard Wells. Steinkamp and Enger were let go last week while the other three announced their departures earlier on Friday. The staff members let go produced and participated in many popular podcasts including The SeroTalk Podcast, Triple-Click Home, That Android Show, and End of line among others. This leaves a bare-bones staff including long-time programmer Matt Campbell and producer Jamie Pauls who remain with the company, at least for the moment. We've reached out to Serotek for comment, and inquired about the future of the company and their software products and will post more if we hear back. We know a lot of you might like to post your memories, comments, or well wishes to those who have departed. Feel free to do this in the comments. Update to clarify that some of the 5 may have officially resigned. That being said, it's unlikely this was done under favorable terms. The end result is still the same. Sent from my iPhone On Nov 21, 2014, at 11:45 PM, Hank Smith, and Seeing-eye dog Iona hank.smith...@gmail.com wrote: can you please post the link to the article? On 11/21/2014 10:26 PM, Pamela Francis wrote: Hello folks, For those who don't know and our listeners to the Serotalk podcast, their main team has been fired. If you follow blind bargains on Twitter, they have the article posted there. There is nothing on the Serotalk page or the Serotek page to say anything about the most recent move. Truly a shame. Those guys had good chemistry. You would never know they were working from across the country. If you subscribe to any of their services, you're likely to get less support now than you ever did. I hope it doesn't mean the beginning of the end for those people. As hard as their founder worked to create it into the company it has been. Pam Francis -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: A little off topic, yet maybe relevant to some
Its not like they are alone in this. I see more and more adaptive companies facing more competition from other areas such as Apple. Reality checks do not bounce. From The Believer. . . . . . what if it were true? ancient.ali...@icloud.com On 11/22/2014 10:59 AM, Pamela Francis wrote: What is truly sad, is they have risen to be the beacon of convention coverage and or A T news bragging about how many followers they had, yet are willing in the wink of an eye to pull the rug out from under all of those people who have come to depend on them. Mike Calvo, their founder, is blind. He left the company. Their current CEO is sighted. It's no skin off of his nose to close the door on a resource that many have come to depend on. Though they have sworn their employees to secrecy, it sounds to me like they have become more mercenary with the inability to deliver. I'll bet they didn't bother to send an email to their paying subscribers letting them know the service was going to get axed if in fact that happens. They didn't count on blind bargains printing their story. In order to save face they feel as if they have to come out with a lame blog explanation. That in my opinion is 100% garbage. You wanted to be a big boy company accepting all the big boy accolades? Put on your big boy pants, face the music. Do a podcast. Bring everyone back, allow them all to explain why they left with no holes barred. Pam Francis On Nov 22, 2014, at 12:19 PM, Jessica Miss junglebookfa...@gmail.com wrote: That doesn't make sense; they made great software and other services to go along with it so don't understand why they're splitting up all of a sudden. Sent from my iPhone On Nov 22, 2014, at 12:57 AM, Joe Quinn jdawg1...@gmail.com wrote: Here it is: Serotek, the makers of the System Access screen reader and the company behind the Serotalk POdcast Network, has parted ways with the majority of their staf, leaving the future of the company in doubt. Those losing their jobs include Buddy Brannan, Ricky ENger, Lisa Salinger, Joe Steinkamp, and Richard Wells. Steinkamp and Enger were let go last week while the other three announced their departures earlier on Friday. The staff members let go produced and participated in many popular podcasts including The SeroTalk Podcast, Triple-Click Home, That Android Show, and End of line among others. This leaves a bare-bones staff including long-time programmer Matt Campbell and producer Jamie Pauls who remain with the company, at least for the moment. We've reached out to Serotek for comment, and inquired about the future of the company and their software products and will post more if we hear back. We know a lot of you might like to post your memories, comments, or well wishes to those who have departed. Feel free to do this in the comments. Update to clarify that some of the 5 may have officially resigned. That being said, it's unlikely this was done under favorable terms. The end result is still the same. Sent from my iPhone On Nov 21, 2014, at 11:45 PM, Hank Smith, and Seeing-eye dog Iona hank.smith...@gmail.com wrote: can you please post the link to the article? On 11/21/2014 10:26 PM, Pamela Francis wrote: Hello folks, For those who don't know and our listeners to the Serotalk podcast, their main team has been fired. If you follow blind bargains on Twitter, they have the article posted there. There is nothing on the Serotalk page or the Serotek page to say anything about the most recent move. Truly a shame. Those guys had good chemistry. You would never know they were working from across the country. If you subscribe to any of their services, you're likely to get less support now than you ever did. I hope it doesn't mean the beginning of the end for those people. As hard as their founder worked to create it into the company it has been. Pam Francis -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To
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Wow. That’s really a shame. The programmer worked so, so hard! He made apps for the mac, iOS, Android, and System access. Sure it wasn’t all that good, but the services offered, gosh it was the first time I ever heard described programming! On Nov 22, 2014, at 1:22 AM, Pamela Francis gypsykitt...@gmail.com wrote: I follow their Twitter feed. Once they realized news had spread like wildfire, they decided to defend themselves as if they were a3 year old child. You cannot tell me five people are going to depart right before the holidays under good terms. As much listenership as they have developed around the world it is rather disingenuous of them not to give an explanation. After they saw the firestorm on their Twitter feed, they said they would come out with some sort of a lame blog post. After the way they handle the Twitter feed, there is no way I can believe anything a blog post could say. Pam Francis On Nov 21, 2014, at 11:57 PM, Joe Quinn jdawg1...@gmail.com wrote: Here it is: Serotek, the makers of the System Access screen reader and the company behind the Serotalk POdcast Network, has parted ways with the majority of their staf, leaving the future of the company in doubt. Those losing their jobs include Buddy Brannan, Ricky ENger, Lisa Salinger, Joe Steinkamp, and Richard Wells. Steinkamp and Enger were let go last week while the other three announced their departures earlier on Friday. The staff members let go produced and participated in many popular podcasts including The SeroTalk Podcast, Triple-Click Home, That Android Show, and End of line among others. This leaves a bare-bones staff including long-time programmer Matt Campbell and producer Jamie Pauls who remain with the company, at least for the moment. We've reached out to Serotek for comment, and inquired about the future of the company and their software products and will post more if we hear back. We know a lot of you might like to post your memories, comments, or well wishes to those who have departed. Feel free to do this in the comments. Update to clarify that some of the 5 may have officially resigned. That being said, it's unlikely this was done under favorable terms. The end result is still the same. Sent from my iPhone On Nov 21, 2014, at 11:45 PM, Hank Smith, and Seeing-eye dog Iona hank.smith...@gmail.com wrote: can you please post the link to the article? On 11/21/2014 10:26 PM, Pamela Francis wrote: Hello folks, For those who don't know and our listeners to the Serotalk podcast, their main team has been fired. If you follow blind bargains on Twitter, they have the article posted there. There is nothing on the Serotalk page or the Serotek page to say anything about the most recent move. Truly a shame. Those guys had good chemistry. You would never know they were working from across the country. If you subscribe to any of their services, you're likely to get less support now than you ever did. I hope it doesn't mean the beginning of the end for those people. As hard as their founder worked to create it into the company it has been. Pam Francis -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
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Um, why did mike Calvo leave? And why a sighted person in place of him? Gosh. All these companies are making way too poor of choices. On Nov 22, 2014, at 12:59 PM, Pamela Francis gypsykitt...@gmail.com wrote: What is truly sad, is they have risen to be the beacon of convention coverage and or A T news bragging about how many followers they had, yet are willing in the wink of an eye to pull the rug out from under all of those people who have come to depend on them. Mike Calvo, their founder, is blind. He left the company. Their current CEO is sighted. It's no skin off of his nose to close the door on a resource that many have come to depend on. Though they have sworn their employees to secrecy, it sounds to me like they have become more mercenary with the inability to deliver. I'll bet they didn't bother to send an email to their paying subscribers letting them know the service was going to get axed if in fact that happens. They didn't count on blind bargains printing their story. In order to save face they feel as if they have to come out with a lame blog explanation. That in my opinion is 100% garbage. You wanted to be a big boy company accepting all the big boy accolades? Put on your big boy pants, face the music. Do a podcast. Bring everyone back, allow them all to explain why they left with no holes barred. Pam Francis On Nov 22, 2014, at 12:19 PM, Jessica Miss junglebookfa...@gmail.com wrote: That doesn't make sense; they made great software and other services to go along with it so don't understand why they're splitting up all of a sudden. Sent from my iPhone On Nov 22, 2014, at 12:57 AM, Joe Quinn jdawg1...@gmail.com wrote: Here it is: Serotek, the makers of the System Access screen reader and the company behind the Serotalk POdcast Network, has parted ways with the majority of their staf, leaving the future of the company in doubt. Those losing their jobs include Buddy Brannan, Ricky ENger, Lisa Salinger, Joe Steinkamp, and Richard Wells. Steinkamp and Enger were let go last week while the other three announced their departures earlier on Friday. The staff members let go produced and participated in many popular podcasts including The SeroTalk Podcast, Triple-Click Home, That Android Show, and End of line among others. This leaves a bare-bones staff including long-time programmer Matt Campbell and producer Jamie Pauls who remain with the company, at least for the moment. We've reached out to Serotek for comment, and inquired about the future of the company and their software products and will post more if we hear back. We know a lot of you might like to post your memories, comments, or well wishes to those who have departed. Feel free to do this in the comments. Update to clarify that some of the 5 may have officially resigned. That being said, it's unlikely this was done under favorable terms. The end result is still the same. Sent from my iPhone On Nov 21, 2014, at 11:45 PM, Hank Smith, and Seeing-eye dog Iona hank.smith...@gmail.com wrote: can you please post the link to the article? On 11/21/2014 10:26 PM, Pamela Francis wrote: Hello folks, For those who don't know and our listeners to the Serotalk podcast, their main team has been fired. If you follow blind bargains on Twitter, they have the article posted there. There is nothing on the Serotalk page or the Serotek page to say anything about the most recent move. Truly a shame. Those guys had good chemistry. You would never know they were working from across the country. If you subscribe to any of their services, you're likely to get less support now than you ever did. I hope it doesn't mean the beginning of the end for those people. As hard as their founder worked to create it into the company it has been. Pam Francis -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to
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can you please post the link to the article? On 11/21/2014 10:26 PM, Pamela Francis wrote: Hello folks, For those who don't know and our listeners to the Serotalk podcast, their main team has been fired. If you follow blind bargains on Twitter, they have the article posted there. There is nothing on the Serotalk page or the Serotek page to say anything about the most recent move. Truly a shame. Those guys had good chemistry. You would never know they were working from across the country. If you subscribe to any of their services, you're likely to get less support now than you ever did. I hope it doesn't mean the beginning of the end for those people. As hard as their founder worked to create it into the company it has been. Pam Francis -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: A little off topic, yet maybe relevant to some
Here it is: Serotek, the makers of the System Access screen reader and the company behind the Serotalk POdcast Network, has parted ways with the majority of their staf, leaving the future of the company in doubt. Those losing their jobs include Buddy Brannan, Ricky ENger, Lisa Salinger, Joe Steinkamp, and Richard Wells. Steinkamp and Enger were let go last week while the other three announced their departures earlier on Friday. The staff members let go produced and participated in many popular podcasts including The SeroTalk Podcast, Triple-Click Home, That Android Show, and End of line among others. This leaves a bare-bones staff including long-time programmer Matt Campbell and producer Jamie Pauls who remain with the company, at least for the moment. We've reached out to Serotek for comment, and inquired about the future of the company and their software products and will post more if we hear back. We know a lot of you might like to post your memories, comments, or well wishes to those who have departed. Feel free to do this in the comments. Update to clarify that some of the 5 may have officially resigned. That being said, it's unlikely this was done under favorable terms. The end result is still the same. Sent from my iPhone On Nov 21, 2014, at 11:45 PM, Hank Smith, and Seeing-eye dog Iona hank.smith...@gmail.com wrote: can you please post the link to the article? On 11/21/2014 10:26 PM, Pamela Francis wrote: Hello folks, For those who don't know and our listeners to the Serotalk podcast, their main team has been fired. If you follow blind bargains on Twitter, they have the article posted there. There is nothing on the Serotalk page or the Serotek page to say anything about the most recent move. Truly a shame. Those guys had good chemistry. You would never know they were working from across the country. If you subscribe to any of their services, you're likely to get less support now than you ever did. I hope it doesn't mean the beginning of the end for those people. As hard as their founder worked to create it into the company it has been. Pam Francis -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: A little off topic, yet maybe relevant to some
I follow their Twitter feed. Once they realized news had spread like wildfire, they decided to defend themselves as if they were a3 year old child. You cannot tell me five people are going to depart right before the holidays under good terms. As much listenership as they have developed around the world it is rather disingenuous of them not to give an explanation. After they saw the firestorm on their Twitter feed, they said they would come out with some sort of a lame blog post. After the way they handle the Twitter feed, there is no way I can believe anything a blog post could say. Pam Francis On Nov 21, 2014, at 11:57 PM, Joe Quinn jdawg1...@gmail.com wrote: Here it is: Serotek, the makers of the System Access screen reader and the company behind the Serotalk POdcast Network, has parted ways with the majority of their staf, leaving the future of the company in doubt. Those losing their jobs include Buddy Brannan, Ricky ENger, Lisa Salinger, Joe Steinkamp, and Richard Wells. Steinkamp and Enger were let go last week while the other three announced their departures earlier on Friday. The staff members let go produced and participated in many popular podcasts including The SeroTalk Podcast, Triple-Click Home, That Android Show, and End of line among others. This leaves a bare-bones staff including long-time programmer Matt Campbell and producer Jamie Pauls who remain with the company, at least for the moment. We've reached out to Serotek for comment, and inquired about the future of the company and their software products and will post more if we hear back. We know a lot of you might like to post your memories, comments, or well wishes to those who have departed. Feel free to do this in the comments. Update to clarify that some of the 5 may have officially resigned. That being said, it's unlikely this was done under favorable terms. The end result is still the same. Sent from my iPhone On Nov 21, 2014, at 11:45 PM, Hank Smith, and Seeing-eye dog Iona hank.smith...@gmail.com wrote: can you please post the link to the article? On 11/21/2014 10:26 PM, Pamela Francis wrote: Hello folks, For those who don't know and our listeners to the Serotalk podcast, their main team has been fired. If you follow blind bargains on Twitter, they have the article posted there. There is nothing on the Serotalk page or the Serotek page to say anything about the most recent move. Truly a shame. Those guys had good chemistry. You would never know they were working from across the country. If you subscribe to any of their services, you're likely to get less support now than you ever did. I hope it doesn't mean the beginning of the end for those people. As hard as their founder worked to create it into the company it has been. Pam Francis -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
