[nfbcs] Independence with a Price Tag

[Gary Wunder]

Lots of people think it is neat, but neat when shopping in radio shack and 
pressing a button to hear the alarm clock talk is different from the "neat, 
I'll buy it."

Gary


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tracy Carcione" <carcione at access.net>
To: "NFBnet NFBCS Mailing List" <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, February 08, 2010 8:02 AM
Subject: Re: [nfbcs] Independence with a Price Tag


>I remember several years ago Mr. Vanderheiden of the Trace Center
> predicted that talking programs on cell phones would become very common
> because everyone would want their phones to talk so they could use them
> while driving and not have to look.  I hear lots of stories about the
> dangers of distracted driving, but I don't hear that talking cell phones
> are common in the mainstream market.  I wonder where the disconnect is?
> Tracy
>
>
>> I think Gary and David really hit the real important points to 
>> contemplate
>> on this issue.  The cost of developer salaries, benefits and the 
>> equipment
>> it requires for all involved with creating a software release gets rather
>> high rather quickly.  When you then factor in the limited size of the
>> market
>> for the products, the producers have no choice but to charge the prices
>> they
>> charge.
>>
>> This unfortunate basic economic fact does not only apply to the companies
>> in
>> the adaptive technology field.  Most of the IT companies I have been
>> exposed
>> to have the same issues.  Indeed most of them are now off-shoring the 
>> nuts
>> and bolts development work.  When companies who sell their products to
>> billions offer a tool for $100.00, they do it because they figured out
>> it's
>> cost, estimated how many people they will need to have buy it and if
>> successful they make a profit.
>>
>> I personally believe there are only two ways the cost of the adaptive
>> technology can come down to a more easily affordable price.  1.  The
>> technology crosses over to the general sighted user.  This occurred with
>> scanners.  2.  The size of the potential market grows.  Again more users
>> would reduce the cost per unit.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks, William
>
>
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