Anyway, IPods are worthless. The glammer and stuff is all marketing. Go find a Reo Carma or Carbon, players made of all metal construction. Thanks, Nick ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Holmes" <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Monday, October 24, 2005 7:09 PM Subject: Re: off topic: accessibility with mac stuff? > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: RIPEMD160 > > Actually since you mention Windows Media, Yes, I blaim Microsoft; not > windows itself but it is the developer that I lay blaim with. Thank God > there are alternative choices to play audio files like winamp or foobar > 2000 but for the apple and well, windows too for that matter, Itunes is > the only software you can use to support all features of an Ipod. So if > one has an Ipod, he/she *MUST* have access to Itunes to use it fully. > Also, the itunes music store cannot be accessed with any other players > either and it so happens that the music store is about the least > accessible part of Itunes under windows. If itunes never gets rewritten > in Coco and as long as the windows version is like it is pressently, I > will never again buy music from Apple's store, nor will ever buy an > Ipod. The inaccessibility makes it worthless to me. > > On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 09:30:12AM -0700, BlindTech wrote: > > but windows media player isn't all that acccessable either. so do we blame > > windows? is there not quick time, or any other mp3 player. do we blame > > apple for all this miner stuff and not look at windows in the samemanner? > > BlindTech > > > - -- > HolmesGrown Solutions > The best solutions for the best price! > http://ld.net/?holmesgrown > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.7 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFDXWmoWSjv55S0LfERA2M6AKDyuBe80aGhO71eo/MGVBns9uBJcACg8wUV > I/5iuW8ytBfpttu2ECJhO0o= > =xE9T > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >