MBraille Pricing

No way am I paying £20 for braille input on a telephone. Brailletouche's price was reasonable when I bought it at launch, but the price for this is out of wack with reality. I know, it sounds like whining, but I am getting sick of paying over the odds for blindness stuff. Fair enough, the product might be alright, but I don't think it's functionality justifies £20, especially if your not on facebook and stuff.

Thanks for the fair response. I admit, I was very surprised to see the price as high as it is. It's probably one of those apps that you have to absolutely need because you find using the regular keyboard difficult. I do like Braille Touch though, although it's not able to do contracted braille, the price was acceptable. To be honest, there are some design features that I don't agree with either, having my text copied to the clipboard automatically isn't something I approve of personally - should be an option to disable this behaviour. Either way, different viewpoint and accepted.

Typical arrogant software developer. I hardly think £20 is a race to the bottom for a braille input application. It is actually an insane price to expect blind users to pay, considering that the app isn't as good as Braille touch in many respects because of the keyboard. Either way, nice way to piss off the very community your trying to help by telling them that your not only disinterested in there viewpoints with regards to price, you could care less and will put it up. Sorry, you've lost a customer on principle. Bye-bye!

Firstly, any need to be so confrontational and pathetic? Criticising someone over being concerned that a price is outlandish, pricing the software out of the market and showing concern is now worthy of the great troll tag "lol" is it? Trying to act tough on the internet and judging folk is hardly a good indicator of your personality, well it is but unlike you I am keeping my personal opinion of you to myself thanks. Secondly, I don't object to paying for applications, I object to developers thinking they can milk a small community for what they can get, and showing little concern for the viewpoints of said community when they're the ones paying for the software. Genuinely, I could care less what nurd rage you want to display in comment number 32767, you're just proving that the only person's viewpoint you are interested in is your own., and all the pathetic attempts at humour and derision won't change that. Now, you might be a teenager and I understand you may not be grown up yet, but if you are indeed a grown adult trying to talk like your the man to somebody like this on the internet then I can give as good as I get and believe me, i'd get banned in under 3 minutes. I'm not actually offended by your comment, i'm just disappointed. Disappointed in a community that sees opposing viewpoints as whining, when actually I am trying to assist the developer in not pricing himself out of contention. After all, why the hell should I care anyways, it's a braille input app that doesn't work as well as it should in the first place, because it doesn't even acknowledge translation properly when speaking braille input as an example, uses free API's to do it's twitter integration/google searches, employs a bit of a parser to enter events in the calendar and adds some editing that seems clunky from a UI perspective anyways, though I haven't considered as yet how i'd improve on it. I often wonder why nobody uses the roter to do some of this work but there we go, what the hell do I know, i've only developed software myself but yet again I am clueless about the harshness that is the life of mobile application developers. I'll carry on just whining for fun shall I. Talk about idiot attitude. The blind community shouldn't feel they are not entitled to have opinions just because you wasted in my view £20. People whine that equipment pricing is expensive, yet accept the status quo of being robbed because it is on a telephone. Don't like my opinions on this, Shame but there it is. I won't end this comment with some snarky trollish nonsense, i'm an adult you see, we try to be rational people unlike children who sit at keyboards and play tough.

I'm not your bundle of joy either, do us a favour and let adults talk.

Fed up of being shot down for having opposing viewpoints within this community. Fed up with people assuming they know what my capabilities and experiences are. Fed up of everyone just lying down, taking it like idiots but will still play on lists and complain to each other about how the latest reading machine is expensive. Fed up of a community that disrespects it's patrons so to speak. Fed up of trollish comments from people who wish they actually had some sense of validity with what they think, but they are so insecure about things that they have to act tough on the internet. Fed up of being told how to think. Fed up of being taken as an idiot when I have something valid to offer a discussion. Funny, there is a lot to be sick of within the blind community, no wonder I hardly bother.

Hi, I do agree that there is a race to the bottom on many apps. I think that in this case, £20 for what the app is seems really excessive though, and my reason for calling him out really was simple. People are trying to express that they are concerned about the price of his application, and he basically says"So the price is not going to be lower any time soon, but it might well be higher.". To me, that attitude says that he really could care less about his customers as long as he makes money. Pricing oneself out of the market is a valid concern, but I can only accept this to a limited degree. Braille Touch when I paid for it was £10, worth that for what it had. I think it's solution is slightly better in that it doesn't copy to the clipboard automatically as MBraille does. Really, we can argue about this all day, and taking away SeanUK's silly ideas about what constitutes humour away, I have my viewpoint, others have theres. On a side note, I suspect that braille touch are waiting until the release of IOS 7. I recall fondly all the developer feedback and discussions that Caleb had on the braille touch entry and think that's how you relate to customers. Each to there own.