New Linux PDA For Blind People

[Glenn at home]

If they charged something like 1 hundred more than the original P D A, they 
would make a killing!
Volume sales!
Glenn

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From: "Lorenzo Taylor" <lorenzo at taylor.homelinux.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 3:13 PM
Subject: Re: New Linux PDA For Blind People


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Let's just hope it is competitive with the rest of today's PDA's.
Companies have an extremely bad habbit of charging 5 and sometimes 10
times or more as much as the equivalent product that can be purchased at
a retail store simply because their product is packaged for use by blind
or visually impaired people.  With as much free and open source software
as this thing is using, they should be able to keep the price down to a
reasonable level.

Basically, make it affordable for someone on a disability check or who
works in a workshop, or else a lot of blind people won't be able to buy
it.  All they will be able to do is think how nice it would be to have
such a nice piece of technology and wonder why it costs so much when
they could go to the store and pick up the same thing for under $300 if
only they had sight.

Sorry for the rant,
Lorenzo
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