I promised I would no longer talk about features that have yet to be
implemented. And I won't. But what I will say is, have faith in APH. Let
them listen to the suggestions, let them decide which are affordable and
which are not. They, more than any of us, know what the costs in adding a
feature are. People making suggestions should not be shushed by people who
are terrified of change. Larry has made it clear on this list before that
people are free to make suggestions, and while APH staff are not at
liberty to discuss these suggestions, they are read. You guys have
effectively shut me up from ever making a public suggestion for
improvement. How many other people are you going to shut up because of
your fears?
Bruce
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On Tue, 15 Nov 2005, Walt Smith wrote:
Because every suggestion is going to require _at least_ the time of the programmers who write the firmware. Whether a feature has been implemented on some other device is totally irrelevant to implementing it on the Book Port. This is aside from issues such as memory requirements, possible hardware changes, etc.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Josh Kennedy" <jkenn337@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 6:37 PM Subject: [bookport] Re: another suggestion
And why would my suggestions make the price higher, if what I am asking has already been done and implemented in the 1993 braille 'n speaks? It's not like I'm asking them to make it into a windows ce notetaker. I'm just asking it to have some more of the functions that the braille 'n speaks have in them.
Josh
----- Original Message ----- From: "Shannon A. Reece" <shazza@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 5:31 PM Subject: [bookport] Re: another suggestion
Absolutely positively right! Thanks for saying so well what I've been trying to think of how to say for hours. You will not be disappointed with your BP, believe me! It is the best $400 I have ever spent and I love mine. But you are correct, if all these wanted suggestions by a very few persons were to make the BP, say even a couple of hundred dollars higher instead of the $400 it is, I, as a stay at home mother, could not have afforded it. I sure as heck cannot afford a BrailleNote or a BrailleLite. I have kids to feed and clothe. Long live Book Port as a Book reader! Shannon From: "Eric StevenS" <sseric57@xxxxxxxxxxx>
I am just curious, for those paying for these products themselves, withallsoof these features, how much higher would you be willing to go for such a device?
I haven't received mine yet, so maybe I'm mistaken thinking the value isgood as is. But, it almost seems like people want a Braille N Speak with book reading, recording, and MP3 capability. Let's see, that $1,500 plus? How many would they sell at that price point?
