Hi Krister, There are apps available which in combination do most of what the Seeing Eye app does, but if those were all as good and complete than why were so many of us looking forward to the Seeing Eye app? People have very different needs and expectations when it comes to navigation apps and devices. May already owns a Trekker Breeze and for anybody who does have one of those I can totally understand why the Seeing Eye app is not as attractive. Of course you have to carry 2 devices, but the advantage also is that you aren't using up your iPhone's battery. Oh, and none of the existing apps, not a single one, tells you automatically about intersections, e.g. if it is a 4-way, 3-way etc. I always found this a very useful feature when I had my Windows Smartphone with MobileSpeak and MobileGeo. It is interesting how often I heard somebody saying "If only there was an app for the iPhone as good as MobileGeo". MobileGeo which required MobileSpeak to function, was $800 or $900 and MobileSpeak added another $300. I think we all forget what we used to pay for these devices, only a year ago a Trekker Breeze was still $900 and only now it's on sale for $500 (Humanware lists it regularly at $700) here in Canada and I think to a large extend that price drop is because of devices like the iPhone and apps like Seeing Eye which are a much more cost effective solution in the long run even if they are not for everybody.
OK, this is it for me in this discussion as well. I will most definitely buy the Seeing Eye app because I am confident that it will work well and be improved down the road. Oh, incidently, if Sendero had chosen to sell it outright for $200 with no subscription cost there would have been just as much outrage about it. Regards, Sieghard -- 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.
