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 -----Original Message----- From: ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of dan thompson Sent: Saturday, September 12, 2009 1:16 PM To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 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 > > > PLEASE READ THIS FOOTER AT LEAST ONCE! > To leave the list, click on the immediately following link: > ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > If this link doesn't work then send a message to: > ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > and in the Subject line type > unsubscribe > For other list commands such as vacation mode, > click on the immediately following link: > ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq or > send a message, to > ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > and in the Subject line type > faq > PLEASE READ THIS FOOTER AT LEAST ONCE! 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