<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><br><br><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">-- <br>Miranda b. Kilby</span><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Ph: <a dir="ltr" href="tel:(352)942-0417" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="telephone" x-apple-data-detectors-result="2">(352)942-0417</a></span></div></div><div><br>Begin forwarded message:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><b>From:</b> marty--- via FABS <<a href="mailto:fabs@nfbnet.org">fabs@nfbnet.org</a>><br><b>Date:</b> November 8, 2017 at 6:16:08 PM EST<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:blparent@nfbnet.org">blparent@nfbnet.org</a>, <a href="mailto:4alabama@nfbnet.org">4alabama@nfbnet.org</a>, <a href="mailto:arizona-students@nfbnet.org">arizona-students@nfbnet.org</a>, <a href="mailto:arkabs@nfbnet.org">arkabs@nfbnet.org</a>, <a href="mailto:blind-international-students@nfbnet.org">blind-international-students@nfbnet.org</a>, <a href="mailto:blindtlk@nfbnet.org">blindtlk@nfbnet.org</a>, <a href="mailto:aabs-forum@nfbnet.org">aabs-forum@nfbnet.org</a>, <a 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href="mailto:missouri-parents-network@nfbnet.org">missouri-parents-network@nfbnet.org</a>, <a href="mailto:mile-high-chapter@nfbnet.org">mile-high-chapter@nfbnet.org</a>, <a href="mailto:michigan-at-large@nfbnet.org">michigan-at-large@nfbnet.org</a>, <a href="mailto:mi-abs@nfbnet.org">mi-abs@nfbnet.org</a>, <a href="mailto:md-atlarge@nfbnet.org">md-atlarge@nfbnet.org</a>, <a href="mailto:massabs@nfbnet.org">massabs@nfbnet.org</a>, <a href="mailto:lansingmi@nfbnet.org">lansingmi@nfbnet.org</a>, <a href="mailto:jayhawk-chapter@nfbnet.org">jayhawk-chapter@nfbnet.org</a>, <a href="mailto:il-talk@nfbnet.org">il-talk@nfbnet.org</a>, <a href="mailto:iabs-talk@nfbnet.org">iabs-talk@nfbnet.org</a>, <a href="mailto:grandrapidsmi@nfbnet.org">grandrapidsmi@nfbnet.org</a>, <a href="mailto:gopbc@nfbnet.org">gopbc@nfbnet.org</a><br><b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:marty@blindfoldgames.org">marty@blindfoldgames.org</a><br><b>Subject:</b> <b>[Fabs] No more Blindfold Games or Updates</b><br><b>Reply-To:</b> Florida Association of Blind Students <<a href="mailto:fabs@nfbnet.org">fabs@nfbnet.org</a>><br><br></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><span style="font-family:Verdana; color:#000000; font-size:10pt;"><div><h1 class="entry-title" style="border: 0px; font-family: "Lucida Grande", Arial, "Lucida Sans Unicode", sans-serif; font-size: 2.2rem; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 56px 5px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 5px 36px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline; clear: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 1px 1px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.2;"><a href="https://blindfoldgames.org/2017/11/08/no-more-blindfold-games-or-updates/" rel="bookmark" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 22px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-decoration: none;">No more Blindfold Games or Updates</a></h1><div><br></div></div><div class="entry-content" style="border: 0px; font-family: "Lucida Grande", Arial, "Lucida Sans Unicode", sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I just finished talking with an Apple representative, and Apple’s decision is that unless I merge the 80 Blindfold Games into a handful of apps, they will no longer allow new games to be released or allow updates to be make.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">From a technology perspective, that’s extremely hard and time-consuming. From a business perspective, that would mean spending hundreds of hours recoding the games, with no possible return-on-investment. Most of the games generate sales in the first three months of the game being released, and I’ve been building these games for 4 years.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">From a usability perspective, that means the main menus would be ridiculously complex, and the settings screens would be confusing and almost unusable.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">If you are unhappy with this decision, you can express your opinion to Apple. The accessibility desk is at <a href="mailto:accessibility@apple.com" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(2, 106, 203); text-decoration: none;">accessibility@apple.com</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>or you can call 1-800-MY-APPLE. Thanks to everyone for enjoying my games.</div></div><div></div></span>
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