Oxford Deluxe (InApp購入版)

2009年に￥6000円で買って、ずっと愛用していて2012年末のアップデートを最後にITSから消えていた辞書。調子が悪くなったのでiPadに再インストールしようと思ったら消えていて。デベロッパーにWhat's going on? 〜　と問い合わせたら、We are just having some problems with our account right now. Please bear with us while we sort it out.という返事があった。幸いMacには本体が残っていたので、そのデータでメールの言うとおり耐えて待っていたら復活した。何か契約上か何かの問題があったのだろうか？しかし、文句なく良い辞書APPです。旧バージョンが6000だったので、￥1200円も特になってます。旧バージョンを開くとアップグレードのアナウンスがでるけどもiPadでは新バージョンの自動ダウンロードはできませんでした。だけど天下の英国英語の金字塔　ODE (Oxford English Dictionary…けどFull Revision の600,000 words入ってるのでしょうかねこれ？)にシソーラスOTEもついて重宝な辞書なので、☆５つ。音声は英米を両方を再生できる　cambridge advanced learner's dictionaryとちがい、British一筋です。Americanを勉強する人は注意。（Oxford とつく場合、Oxford Dictionary and Thesaurus PROもBrishtish sampleだけなので注意ですよ、デベロッパーに確認しました）。ITSから消えてしまって「アップデートもされないなら　本家　Oxford University Press が出しているOALD（oxford advanced learner’s dictionary of english）　を買うしかないか〜と思って、そっちを買うつもりだったので、買う前に新バージョンに気付いて良かった。ただOALD音声再生機能を試して観たいので、この後、買ってみようと思う。

Why does this say ODE rather than OED?

Overall it’s OK, if a bit lacking in content depth. In preference I turn to another Thesaurus with a much richer range of choices. My main beef is small but irritating - the search box doesn’t auto populate with the word currently highlighted in a document. Sounds trivial, but is a pain when working with as few distractions as possible and it prevents this app from being my one stop shop.

Too many of hyphenated words and proper nouns.

Terrible interface and no widgets. Will not renew.

Some things, like the Periodic Table, represent some of the foremost achievements of human thought. And the OED is such a monument (even if we discount the other Oxford dictionaries). Buying a book like this for $25 is worth it to me. I expect this to provide profit and enjoyment to years to come. I offer my personal thanks to the countless people over centuries who have worked and sacrificed to produce this book. And I also send my thanks to the software engineers, and everyone else, who did the work allowing me to put this behemoth of a book into my pocket. Five stars.

Wow. What? I randomly clicked through 10 words and it locked me out. That's a 30-second trial. Amazing, Oxford.

The user interface is unwieldy, non-intuitive and confusing. I paid for it but I’m dumping it

It serves its purpose, but due to lag time, system shutting down unexpectedly I find that I dont turn to it often and prefer the internet

As an octogenarian at this stage in my life, I look back to the days when as a young school boy my dad always spoke of the “Murray’s Oxford” as the ultimate lexicon to refer to. Things have not changed. When you refer to it, you know it is the ultimate. How delighted I was when my granddaughter a few years ago, when she was still not ten, asked me for a dictionary. What did I give her. You guessed the answer correctly! Why, of course the Oxford dictionary. She is a voracious reader and refers to it all of the time. Cyrus Kapadia.