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@darrell73 We can deal with the paywall and have done so. But the prospect of violence against blind people is very concerning.
Jonathan Mosen
Husband, dad, granddad, proud member of and Executive Director for Accessibility Excellence at the National Federation of the Blind, #blindness advocate, #accessibility geek, experienced leader, broadcaster on and owner of Mushroom FM, Beatles fan, cricket nut, Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, living the keto dream. Keeping things in perspective through #meditation. Opinions here are mine because I thought of them myself
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I'm concerned about the growing over-the-top rhetoric around smart glasses. I fear it's only a matter of time before a blind person, using these as a genuinely helpful and legitimate accommodation, finds themselves the victim of a serious incident. ‘Antizuck’ iOS app that claims to detect nearby smart glasses tops App Store chart https://9to5mac.com/2026/07/31/antizuck-ios-app-that-claims-to-detect-nearby-smart-glasses-tops-app-store-chart/
9to5Mac‘Antizuck’ iOS app that claims to detect nearby smart glasses tops App Store chart - 9to5MacVibes around Meta’s AI glasses are off lately. So much so that one of the top three paid iPhone apps...@payown Congratulations on Earshoc. There is a lot here a like very much, it’s building on the Castro paradigm. I absolutely love being able to set it up so I can double-tap the episode in the Inbox and have it added to the bottom of the queue. That’s a real time saver. I purchased the lifetime subscription to show my support.
A couple of suggestions for you.
First, the show notes you get when in the inbox are very truncated, you do get more of the show notes in Castro. It would be great if this could be expanded because for an app that puts VoiceOver first, I’m not sure why we shouldn’t be able to hear the full show notes if that’s what we want to do.
Second, It would be great to select what fields are displayed in the inbox. For example, all I’m interested in is the episode title, podcast name, and description. If I could stop the date and time, whether it’s streamed when played, and duration from being verbalized, that would speed me up.
Third, I think an automatic 14-day trial is a good idea, because I imported my OPML file as part of the onboarding, and it only imported 10. I had hoped that by purchasing, I would see all my other podcasts, but I didn’t.
In terms of future features, trim silence would be great to see.