[nfbcs] FW: compiling iPhone apps to Android apps

[Nancy Coffman]

Hello

I must admit, one of the reasons I am currently using an iPhone is that some of the blindness specific apps I use are only availa on the IOS platform. I got my pone 2 years ago when Android was not as accessible.  Now, it is possible that I am hooked. My husband has an Android that was purchased at the same time.  I have tried running TalkBack on his phone and broken it badly. We lost a lot of data.  I also have not heard good things about BrailleBack.  I am writing  this post  in Braille now. 

The experience I am having with Braille on my IOS8 device reminds me that an Apple user is very much at the mercy  of Apple in many ways. The Braille is still buggy, and Apple knows that.  Sometimes, when you call there accessibility crew, you get a good person and other times, you get a "mainstream"  support technician who barely knows what you are talking about.  I have no idea if the feedback given to them goes anywhere.  

As a technology specialist at the Nebraska Commission for the Blind and Visually Impaired, I feel an urgent need to know both. I have thought about getting an android just to learn it.    

Nancy Coffman
Sent from my iPhone

> On Mar 27, 2015, at 5:59 PM, Joseph C. Lininger via nfbcs <nfbcs at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Mike,
> Oh I'm aware. You will notice I didn't really say one is better than the other; I tried to make it quite clear that I had made a particular choice and why. I do, probably more than on ocasion, run into a person who tries to talk me into making a change as I had said in a post a few days ago. That tends to irritate me, and I admit that may have colored the message even if I didn't intend for it to. Really what I wanted to know was specifics about accessibility of the Apple devices, and about what sorts of things blind folks can do with them that I can't do with my current setup.
> Joe
> 
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