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Subject: RE: Why not iPod?

RE: Why not iPod?

From: John Panarese <tvii_at_optonline.net>
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 14:54:59 -0400

    What's wrong with VoiceOver? I use it all the time. In fact, this mail
is coming from a Mac.

 


John D. Panarese
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-----Original Message-----
From: rockbox-bounces_at_cool.haxx.se [mailto:rockbox-bounces_at_cool.haxx.se] On
Behalf Of Jonas H.
Sent: Friday, September 23, 2005 2:51 PM
To: Rockbox
Subject: Re: Why not iPod?

On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 01:31:21PM -0500, Sarai wrote:
> John,
> If you guys make it accessible i.e. it will speak, a lot of blind
> people will be happy, but you also have to make Itunes accessible as
> well, even though there is an alternative program out there to replace
> Itunes, its not that great. If you guys can make it work, I know a lot
> of blind people who will jump up and down. I just hope you do a better
> job than the programmers who made Tiger, the voice application for
> Apple. Its bad to say the least!

If Rockbox were to run on iPods, it wouldn't need iTunes. You'd simply use
it as a drive, just like Archos devices are used now.

--
Jonas H
rasher(at)rasher(dot)dk
                                                      -- no .sig today
Received on 2005-09-23

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