[bookport] Re: bookport needs a speaker:
- From: "Richard Ring" <ring.richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2005 10:07:49 -0500
I wonder if it might not be a good idea to determine what a product
does, and how it was intended to function before discussing what it
cannot do.
For instance, if I purchase an air conditioner, I don't expect it to
cook my breakfast. If I purchase an I Pod, I don't expect that it will
work with a Braille display.
The Bookport may, like a Walkman, not have a speaker, but it has
functionality that Walkmans only dream about.
When you say many people haven't purchased Bookports because they don't
support Braille, wireless, and have on-board storage, I believe that may
be a case of assuming that your wishes are universal.
The Bookport is not ever going to be all things to all people. Frankly,
many of us appreciate the fact that it uses a storage medium that is
easily replaceable. Second, to have the unit do all processing on-board
would significantly increase battery life and size.
Finally, it is not a network device, it is not intended to be one.
Asking it to support wireless is like asking your washing machine to
make waffles.
-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of David Poehlman
Sent: Monday, September 05, 2005 10:54 AM
To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bookport] Re: bookport needs a speaker:
not a standoff but a conflict. Many people have not bought them
because they don't support braille, they don't support wireless, they
don't have onboard storage and they don't have a speaker. Why does
pac mate have a speaker if it's so unimportant not to have one? How
about braille note, braille sense and even laptops? Oh, you guys who
think a speaker is necessary can just go pound peas. So What if the
device talks. This brings up another matter. It'd be really cool if
we could use the bp as a synth for our computers. Yes, with a
speaker in it.
--
Jonnie Apple Seed
With his:
Hands-On Technolog(eye)s
On Sep 5, 2005, at 11:30 AM, Walt Smith wrote:
It's also a customer request to not add a speaker and that's a standoff.
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Poehlman" <david.poehlman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, September 05, 2005 11:20 AM
Subject: [bookport] Re: bookport needs a speaker:
It could be small and still sound good. IIt could be on the back of
the unit. It might make the unit a bit larger depending on design,
but it would be hugely worth it and this is no opinion. It may well
be a bad idea, but it is a customer request.
--
Jonnie Apple Seed
With his:
Hands-On Technolog(eye)s
On Sep 5, 2005, at 10:21 AM, Chris Hill wrote:
If the unit had a speaker, it'd be too small and you'd complain about
how it sounded. It'd also make the unit larger, and I'd complain
about that. The speaker idea is a bad one.
On Mon, 5 Sep 2005 09:00:39 -0400, you wrote:
> When I examined a book port for several weeks beginning around
> memorial day, I was most put off by the fact that I had to augment
> the unit with something else before even beginning to use it. Yes,
> it's lovely, but no walk man that I know of costs 500 dollars. I
> know that the IPod and its kin require augmentation too, but we are
> talking about a classic need here and that is one of being able to
> hear the audio and for 500 dollars, you'd think we'd get something
> with a speaker in it.
>
> Further on the discussion of what should be in the book port, I was
> disapointed that I could not just load something into the book port
> without yet another augmentation which granted like headphones was
> supplied but unnerving nonetheless especially if you need better
> headphones or an external speaker or a bigger card. I was fully
> informed and it was no surprise but the reality was a bit different
> from the knowing in advance. Were a speaker emplanted into the bp we
> could have error tones and other tonal indications augmenting our
> experience.
>
> I'd love to hear the wisdom behind the current design other than
> perhaps better bat life and a more compact design?
>
> Thanks!
>
>
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