[nfbcs] Fwd: Serotek Blog: Why is it that Apple always seems to get to the future first?

[Buddy Brannan]

On Jun 12, 2009, at 2:33 PM, Trevor Saunders wrote:

> Hi,
>
> well this is personal opinion, but apple doesn't do it first.   
> google has been
> offering a free add-on for android that made it accessible for a  
> while know.

Two questions about that:
1) Has it actually been available for general consumption? I know it  
makes some things on the Android phones accessible, but everything  
that comes with the phone? I'm not so sure about that. But more  
importantly,

2) The iPhone will have Voiceover ***right out of the box****. Not as  
an add-on you need to go hunt up and install. You can just turn it on  
from inside iTunes. Following on the same built-in talking menus the  
iPod Nano now has, you really can't discount the significance here.  
Sure, Rockbox did *that* first, too, but again, this is the first time  
this functionality has been built in, right out of the box, with no  
other pieces to hunt down or install or anything like that.

I'm the first to give Raman props for innovative thinking and making  
things happen. Raman's a real visionary, and he's, well, just freakin  
amazing and has an unbelievably fertile brain. But Google didn't do  
quite what Apple did--although they came mighty close.

Buddy