I'm not sure how this would work. What would be Garmin's motivation for doing this? I'm not sure the development costs still wouldn't be more to provide an accessible option to a given product than develop an accessible product from the ground up. The amortization argument was mostly targeted at the downloading of maps, which we know this product won't do. It also isn't clear that this product will cost significantly more than existing products. Agencies don't have the deep pockets they might have had at one time.
On 27/02/13 21:36, Mark BurningHawk wrote: > So it would still make more sense to partner with a company who makes such a > silent, visually appealing app, and piggy-back a Sendero type level of verbal > interaction at the user's command. This, after all, is what VoiceOver does > to the native IOS when it's invoked. Then, this amortization thing you speak > of can be spread not only over a wider customer base but over two companies' > resources. The problem with a product that costs significantly higher > because it's targeted primarily toward blind people … Okay, let me start that > again… *another* problem with this approach is that there are agencies and > the like with deep pockets who will justify such a purchase in their rehab or > other budgets, which keeps up the barrier between the blind and the world at > large. I see a win-win for Sendero to partner with a more conventionally > familiar name, I.E. Garnin or someone, or even with the Apple Maps app, > provide their product as an option when wanted, and at a significantly lower > cost to everyone. Will I get it and all the maps I need when it comes out? Most likely, unless it's off the scale. I personally hope at least one ," or "home," map comes free with it, or perhaps a set, one from each map source. But making the price too high might not be as damaging as making the target user base too small. Reinventing the wheel seems a bit redundant, if you'll allow me to repeat myself a little bit one more time again. > > Mark BurningHawk > Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 > Home page: Http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ > -- Christopher (CJ) chaltain at Gmail -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
