Hello, Following your reasoning, this is how I see it. Then, the app's price should also be the same as what sighted people pay.
Sent from my Sprint iPhone On Mar 2, 2013, at 3:26 PM, Robert Fenton <robert.fen...@samobile.net> wrote: > Hello everybody: > > At the risk of offending some people, I offer a different perspective on the > developer of the seeing eye app charging fees every year or every three > years. If the developer went to a one time pricing model, it would have to > price the app higher to recover its development costs. It would then face the > same kind of criticism from our community for selling an app that the > community believes is over priced. It is a damned if you do, damned if you > don't scenario. > > Personally, I would be prepared to pay more for ownership of the app and for > a set of maps that are available at the time of release. I am also prepared > to pay for nap updates as sighted users of gps systems do. > > Bob Fenton > > Sent from my iPhone > > On 2013-03-02, at 3:47 PM, Keith Watson <lnx...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> John, >> >> Exactly. You bought a device, it had maps on it. You can now choose to >> upgrade or not to upgrade those maps on the device when they become >> available. If you do not choose to upgrade the device will continue to work >> the way it was sold to you. >> >> Now I buy a device, lets call it an iPhone. I then purchase an app called >> Seeing Eye from a company called Sendero. I pay $100 for the app. time goes >> by. Lets say for the sake of argument that its 3 years later. In the interim >> I have lost my job, the stock market has crashed and the bank has taken my >> house back. I have a job interview and want to use this app to find my way >> to it. I turn it on and low and behold they want another $100 in order for >> me to use it. In other words I have rented the app for 3 years and now its >> useless to me. To my small mind this is not good business. I would go so far >> as to call it extortion. If I am going to pay that high a price for >> something I damned well want to own it. >> >> I do not know what Garmon is going to do with map updates. Whether they are >> going to be free or not is besides the point. I bought Navigon. It will work >> the way it is until I get rid of the device, IOS changes so drasticallyy >> that it no longer is supported or something else better comes along to >> replace it. The choice is mine, not theirs. >> >> Again, these are my opinions and my thoughts. I by no means condemn those of >> you who have the money to waste on this type of business plan. I guess I am >> just a bit more frugal than most. >> >> Keith >> >> On Mar 2, 2013, at 2:21 PM, john gallagher <j...@pianotuner.plus.com> wrote: >> >>> hi there keith interesting but say on my sendero on the apex because the >>> maps are actually on the machine even though they will not get updated they >>> will still work and yes cost is important for blind people as we have to >>> pay much more for our devices and of course the software. am i correct in >>> saying that with navigon there updates are free. >>> >>> -- >>> 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. >> >> -- >> 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. >> >> >> > > -- > 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. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. 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