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Freedom Scientific releases 10 hours of iOS training for mere $600. Wait, what? (self.Blind)
submitted by Southpaw5000
With resources like AppleVis out there that are completely free why on earth are we expected to pay $600 for very basic iOS training? This is complete insanity! It's like they know people will just talk the government into buying it for them! This is not right! Shame on Freedom Scientific!
http://www.freedomscientific.com/About/News/Article/163
http://www.freedomscientific.com/About/News/Article/163
thatsnotgneiss 2 points 7y ago
The price is set at what they know governments and corporations will pay. None of the adaptive equipment they produce is priced for the consumer market.
geoffisblind 2 points 7y ago
I wish I could say I am shocked, but it's Freedom Scientific. I want some of their magnification gear, and they do make good products, but they love their insane prices. They aren't alone, but they are fantastic example of what is wrong with the current state of technology for the blind and visually impaired. They may model it off of people getting aid from the state, but what about those who can't get the aid? Then they just have to go without. It's their product and they can do what they want with it, but I have a moral problem with placing something as basic as simple ios training at $600.
mrg3rry 1 points 7y ago
It's expensive being disabled... The Hadley School for the Blind does a series on youtube called iFocus and it's free and very informative.
I understand we are a niche market but we are also a very low income consumer group.
Accessible equipment and software should not be so expensive...
I understand we are a niche market but we are also a very low income consumer group.
Accessible equipment and software should not be so expensive...
CircleOfTheBlindMice 1 points 7y ago
I heard about that over the weekend from one of my other visually impaired friends. This is absolutely ridiculous! It's crap like that that made me switch from PC to Mac seven years ago, because I was tired of spending stupid amounts of money to upgrade Zoomtext every time Windows got an update. Of course, right around that time, Windows finally put in a semi-decent magnifier but it was too little too late.
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fastfinge 2 points 7y ago
Found the FS employee!
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fastfinge 1 points 7y ago
Hire you to program...IOS training? It's training. No programming involved. You obviously have absolutely no clue what this post is even about. And as for a competing product, $1 costs nothing, and is doing just fine, thanks. $1 offers free IOS training, and is also doing just fine. Voiceover on OS X is also free, and competes with FS as well. As does Talkback on Android, for that matter; while I strongly dislike talkback for various reasons, a lot of other folks love it, so that's largely personal taste on my part. So even if you hate open-source, there are lots of viable business models that don't involve charging $600 for an audiobook. The only two possibilities are that you are employed by Freedom Scientific to spread FUD, or that you have absolutely no idea what you're talking about and should really put down the bong before posting on Reddit.
Edit: and most of your other comments today are in /r/AskTrumpSupporters. That explains everything, really. I'm just wasting my time in this thread.
Edit: and most of your other comments today are in /r/AskTrumpSupporters. That explains everything, really. I'm just wasting my time in this thread.
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