[Reader-users] classic

[Gary Wunder]

You and I do not have out of date readers. We have fine machines with 
fantastic software, and my Reader is no less powerful or important to me 
than it was before the Monday Press Conference. The same is true for my 
BookPort, my Road Runner, and a classic BrailleNote I own.

Gary


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Keith and Tracy" <hear2c at mchsi.com>
To: "Kurzweil National Federation of the Blind Reader user list" 
<reader-users at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2008 8:17 PM
Subject: Re: [Reader-users] classic


> then they should have an upgrade policy that actually helps the prior
> consumers.  My problem is that I got my reader "classic" 6 months ago. 
> The
> software version was the most up to date, and the last one they are
> releasing for the classic version.  Now, I'm stuck with a out of date
> reader, with no more software updates to come.  Like I stated before, I
> payed  $3000 six mnths ago, and now I would have to fork out another $1100
> to update to a phone version.  If they would cover a flat trade up, or 
> give
> a  serious discount for switching to the newer version, I wouln't feel so
> pissed off.  But I don't work, I live in a rural town, where the only jobs
> available are factory work and  farm work, with no public transport or 
> para
> transit to other towns.  I have tapped out the Lion's club, and they state
> there will be no more assistence to me for at least 5 years.  We all make
> choices, but this is ridiculous.
>
> Keith
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Gary Wunder" <gwunder at earthlink.net>
> To: "Kurzweil National Federation of the Blind Reader user list"
> <reader-users at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2008 7:56 PM
> Subject: Re: [Reader-users] classic
>
>
>> Hello James. I have no desire to argue a point on which people have
>> already
>> made up their minds, but I don't blame the KNFB Reading Technologies 
>> Folks
>> for putting out a reader, which was, when it was released, a state of the
>> art product. How would you have them do it differently? How many personal
>> data assistants and cameras should have been purchased? What kind of
>> capital
>> should have been placed into the purchase of spare parts? What would you
>> have thought, if three years after its release, the KNFB reader people
>> were
>> still trying to push on you an old personal data assistant, and a camera,
>> which was outperformed several times over by things you could easily buy
>> at
>> Wal-Mart?
>>
>> I personally have a very hard time living in a world where the market
>> expects me to throw my old DVD player a way, because I can replace it 
>> more
>> cheaply than it can be repaired. I may never get accustomed to the idea
>> that
>> there isn't a little electronics repair shop down the street, but that's
>> the
>> world and the failure to adjust and get comfortable is mine.
>>
>> It is hard not to get into the mindset which says that while I don't
>> expect
>> my old television to be replaced by the company when a new one comes out,
>> I
>> certainly think that new hardware and software is my right, by virtue of
>> my
>> initial purchase.
>>
>> I always think there is too much month left at the end of my money, that
>> my
>> raises do not begin to keep up with the real cost of inflation, but I
>> don't
>> think that gives me any kind of right to blame good people like the kind
>> we
>> find at KNFB Reading Technologies.
>>
>> Gary
>>
>>
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