Hi Chris, I agree with you, I wish there was a monthly subscription, for now, that's my single and only pet peeve!
Cheers, Leo Bado. I have found both freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us. Khalil Gibran. -----Original Message----- From: viphone@googlegroups.com <viphone@googlegroups.com> On Behalf Of Chris Chaffin Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2024 11:24 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Making everyone pay for voice dream What I think is that originally the new owners thought that they would have enough new subscribers to keep it going, and that is why they originally stated that current owners did not have to subscribe. But now that a year has past, they did not get as many new subscribers as they planned, so in order to keep it going, they are having to make everybody subscribe, even those owners that existed when they bought the company. One thing to keep in mind is that the Mac version has always been a subscription, and that price is $60 a year. If I remember correctly, Winston set that price when it was released. All the owners are now doing is including the iOS app within that subscription. So now for $60, you get both the iOS and Mac versions. I do think Voice Dream is worth the subscription, especially if you are someone that uses it all the time. I will say that there has been a lot of updates over the last year. So the new owners are not just letting it sit and stay as it was when they got it. The only thing is, I do wish they would give you an option to pay by the month. Chris > On Mar 26, 2024, at 12:36 PM, Arnold Schmidt <als5...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I agree that $60 a year is a bit much, but I think people are going to be > surprised and disappointed at what they can get for alternatives. I admit > that I have yet to try Dolphin Easy Reader and the Bookshare reader for > myself, but reading the reviews are not encouraging. It is one thing if a few > reviewers don't like an app, another when only a few reviews say an app is > good. There just aren't that many daisy readers out there. I wish Bookshare > would bring back the reader they had years ago. It was a good reader, for a > time it actually was better than Voice Dream. But then, Voice Dream got > better, I got it, and Bookshare dropped their reader of that time. Voice > Dream does a lot of things really well. > > Arnold Schmidt > > Sent from Arnold's iPhone S E 3 > > On Mar 26, 2024, at 12:16 PM, llump...@austin.rr.com wrote: > > They're going to switch to a subscription model for everyone and we either > like it and pay or don't. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: viphone@googlegroups.com <viphone@googlegroups.com> On Behalf Of Dennis > Long > Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2024 11:12 AM > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Subject: RE: Making everyone pay for voice dream > > I agree $20 I might go that. Even that is a might. I just don't use it > enough. I'm not against paying for apps. I subscribe to weather apps and > parcel. So clearly I'm not against app subscriptions. This is again is more > than 50% of the cost of a screen reader. That needs to be pointed out to > them. Again more than 50% of the cost of a screen reader. That reads my > computer screen to me and allows me to use my computer. If the company > thinks people will pay more than 50% of a screen reader subscription they > truly are nuts. > > -----Original Message----- > From: viphone@googlegroups.com <viphone@googlegroups.com> On Behalf Of Ron > Canazzi > Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2024 11:57 AM > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: Making everyone pay for voice dream > > Hi Group, > > I would be willing to pay up to twenty dollars yearly, but this is > ridiculous. I could afford it, but it is still way too high for an app on an > Apple device. As mentioned before, the average price of most apps usable with > IOS devices is between five and ten dollars US. Allowing for the smaller > market, I could easily pay double yearly, but not sextuplet! > > >> On 3/26/2024 3:49 AM, Dennis Long wrote: >> They aren't considering that a large number of blind people can't afford $60 >> a year. They aren't also considering that a large number of blind people >> aren't able to find jobs in the USA. More over if it were more reasonably >> priced maybe and it’s a big maybe. It would be a big maybe because the only >> reason they would lower the price is they terribly misjudged the market. >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: viphone@googlegroups.com <viphone@googlegroups.com> On Behalf Of >> regina alvarado >> Sent: Monday, March 25, 2024 4:17 PM >> To: Viphone <viphone@googlegroups.com> >> Subject: Making everyone pay for voice dream >> >> Just received a message voice dream is going to cost 59 dollars a year now. >> A pet peeve of mine is everything requires a subscription. I see nothing in >> there reasons for this that affects me. So, nice I had it for so long. It >> was a wonderful app, but I am done with it. As with MBraille I was one of >> the first to buy it for I think 5 dollars. Makes me want to cry to lose it, >> but much more important places to put my money. On Social Security with a >> guide dog and so guess it goes away. 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