[ddots-l] Re: What's Going On With CT?

  • From: "Dancing Dots" <billlist1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 02:20:39 -0400

Thank you, Dan.

Keep up your own good work for those kids! 

Regards,
Bill 

Bill McCann 
Founder and President of Dancing Dots since 1992
www.DancingDots.com
Tel: [001] 610-783-6692
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Sent: Saturday, September 12, 2009 1:16 PM
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Subject: [ddots-l] Re: What's Going On With CT?

I genuinely appreciate this kind of standards and look forward to any
upgrades.  Thanks for the work well done in the past.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dancing Dots" <billlist1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, September 12, 2009 11:26 AM
Subject: [ddots-l] Re: What's Going On With CT?


> Dear All,
>
> We are on track to announce a release of CakeTalking within a week.  
> We plan to ship that release by end of the month.  I will post details 
> in a few days.  Until I do, I won't give any further specifics.
>
> I am sorry if some of you are feeling neglected because I have not 
> discussed details of ongoing development publicly.  Anyone who is in 
> this business will tell you that it's not a good policy to discuss 
> features under development for a number of reasons.  For one thing, 
> sometimes development for a particular feature fails.  It would not be 
> fair or prudent to promise something that we ultimately could not 
> deliver.
>
> As many of you know, Dancing Dots is the exclusive distributor for 
> CakeTalking for SONAR, a product developed by David Pinto.  David is 
> an independent developer who does not work for Dancing Dots as an 
> employee or as a consultant.  When David creates and tests something 
> that I believe is ready for sale, I will help him to sell it.  Just 
> like that popular commercial over here with the man who tells us that 
> his company "will sell no wine before it's time" neither will we 
> release something before it's been fully tested and the relevant 
> information can be included in CakeTalking's tutorial documents and 
> online help.  That being said, I am seriously considering the option 
> of offering prerelease test builds for future releases of CakeTalking 
> to customers who understand the potential risks of using something 
> that has not been fully tested yet.
>
> Even if you don't use CakeTalking, you can probably guess the answer 
> to the following question: Is CakeTalking perfect?  Of course not.  Is 
> any piece of software?  But, in the end, the question is: does 
> CakeTalking offer significant value because of the ease of access it 
> affords blind users and because of the usefulness of the hundreds of 
> pages of detailed tutorial information and the handy online help it 
> includes.  I'm happy to report that our sales numbers indicate that 
> the answer to that question for a sizeable number of people is still a 
> resounding "Yes".  Of course, there are alternatives which, as Phil 
> pointed out, is a good thing for blind people.
> (Since I know that you can't see me I will tell you that, before 
> writing that last sentence, I put on my blind-guy hat).  Actually, I 
> put my blind-guy hat right on top of my business-owner hat.  :)
>
> Let me assure Blue Wings, Phil Muir, and anyone else who may have any 
> doubts that I personally am as committed as ever to developing, 
> adapting, marketing and supporting technology to benefit blind 
> musicians.  Are all of our customers happy about what we do all of the 
> time?  Or, for those of you who run your own business, are all of your 
> customers happy about what you do all of the time?  I think you can 
> guess the answer to that one too.  After 17 years in business, what I 
> can say is that my skin continues to grow even thicker.  Still, I know 
> that I am blessed to run a business that helps so many people and 
> provides for my family at the same time.
>
> OK, as the saying goes, watch this space for more details soon.  And 
> let me be the first to wish you a very merry Christmas!
>
> Regards from Dancing Dots,
> Bill
>
>
> Bill McCann
> Founder and President of Dancing Dots since 1992 www.DancingDots.com
> Tel: [001] 610-783-6692
>
>
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