[nabs-l] [Nfbnet-members-list] Threw Our Eyes interview, Ride into History, Race for Independence, Wed. June 22, 8:00 pm EDT

[Ignasi Cambra]

I would say the iBill works pretty well. I tried one at convention too, and it did a good job. The thing is that if one owns an iOS device it really doesn't make much sense to spend $100 on an iBill.
On Jun 23, 2011, at 9:31 AM, Kirt Manwaring wrote:

> Carly,
>  Funny.  Most people had no problem with the iBill.  If it's a piece
> of crap, they've done a pretty good job fooling the majority of the
> blind market.  Incidentally, at the NFB convention exhibit hall last
> year, a nice lady (like really nice, I'll give her the benefit of the
> doubt and assume it wasn't cause I was wearing a suit coat), tried to
> sell me one, and she let me try it out.  I got it to work with a bill
> from my pocket on the first try- I must have a real way with piece of
> crap technology.  Wait...the more I think about it, the more I realize
> that must be true.  I use windows!
>  Best,
> Kirt
> 
> On 6/22/11, Carly Mihalakis <carlymih at earthlink.net> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> Hi, Dave,
>> 
>>         I'm so sorry for so much nonsense which poored out of my
>> fingers and onto this hear List.
>> I have no connection to it other than I wrote those words.
>> Actually, my common law husband and I both had those NoteTellers
>> which we discovered were kind of shity. Then we got to cursorily
>> grope a couple of NoteTellers at a seminar, but even the person
>> showing them couild not make them work.
>> It's interesting however that folks on this List have found good luck
>> with them.
>> Carwrote:
>>> That is your experience -- mine is that the iBill works quite well
>>> -- and I think others have found this to be true too.
>>> 
>>> Dave
>>> 
>>> At 05:08 PM 6/22/2011, you wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> Hi, Hamberto and all interested folks,
>>>> 
>>>> Truth be known, my common law husband and I had the I bill,
>>>> courtesy of rehab but, after repeated attempts to make the thing
>>>> identify paper currency, we ascertained it a genuine piece of shit
>>>> and is not worth anything, so I submit that the manufacturers must
>>>> be well aware of their having themselves a niche market, in blind
>>>> people and the deep pocketed agencies who tend to support them, so
>>>> are totally exploiting it in the manner of any Capitalist aware of
>>>> the exisstance of a small and needy marketplace.
>>>> So, in essence, don't waste your's or rehab's  time with the I
>>>> bill! 02:11 PM 6/22/2011, you wrote:
>>>>> Hello, but what happens if I have a bill in my hand and I want to know
>>>>> what
>>>>> it is, but there is not a single sighted soul to tell me what it is? I
>>>>> know
>>>>> is a free alternative but, is it truly worth it? And, what if that
>>>>> sighted
>>>>> person lies about the amount of money that is on the bill?
>>>>> I would probably support ideas like the KNFB reader and the iBill
>>>>> identifier
>>>>> if they were even cheaper. If they were so, I would buy one or the other,
>>>>> but so far, I can not afford either one.
>>> 
>>> 
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