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

[slery]

Apple had to build it in to their devices because they believe in
proprietary software. You HAVE to use iTunes to do anything with their
devices. With iTunes, you can't do whatever you want with your items. It
dictates what can and can't be done.

The new iPhone sounds really cool but I don't like iTunes. I want something
a little less controlling.

Cindy

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org 
> [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Buddy Brannan
> Sent: Friday, June 12, 2009 4:44 PM
> To: NFBnet NFBCS Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [nfbcs] Fwd: Serotek Blog: Why is it that Apple 
> always seems toget to the future first?
> 
> 
> 
> 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
> 
> _______________________________________________
> nfbcs mailing list
> nfbcs at nfbnet.org 
> http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/nfbcs_nfbnet.org
> To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account 
> info for nfbcs: 
> http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/options/nfbcs_nfbnet.org/sleryth
> ema%40insightbb.com
>