But of course most of a company's R&D needs to be done only once, and after that, it can be expanded upon for the next generation products. Plus, with open-source, it will be easy to acquire pre-made accessibility software. Not that this will make companies run to embrace accessibility, but it is less of a reason for them to complain if it was forced on them. Glenn ----- Original Message ----- From: "Janina Sajka" <janina@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 10:18 AM Subject: Re: New Linux PDA For Blind People Snipp'd to keep it short .. Lorenzo Taylor writes: > # nd here you think Sharp, Sanyo and Sony are going to run > # to add support for eyes-free operation on their hand helds? > > I think they could actually benefit by doing so. For one thing, it > translates into at least a few thousand more sales. Which wouldn't justify it. A few thousand is a loss, not a gain. A few thousand doesn't pay the r&d cost, or the costs to ramp up production, or for marketing, or for all the other costs associated with product sales and distribution these days. _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
