I'm not concerned whether or not it's sufficfiently profitable for commercial business. There are plenty of nonprofits that would take this up, if the value could be demonstrated. The forthcoming approx $500 braille device coming from APH is an example. It will also be a note taker, apparently. Janina Gregory Nowak writes: > On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 03:36:41AM -0400, Janina Sajka wrote: > > This is a pretty sound idea, imo. If we had a box with speakers, braille > > keyboard, basic other IO like RJ45, audio, etc., but could simply swap > > in mb from time to time to pick up on enhanced cpu, ram, etc., wouldn't > > that be pretty future proof? > > Yup, but I can only see a nonprofit or an individual creating such an > option. No for profit company would go for it. Can you imagine the > loss in revenue if in order to upgrade all a user had to do is to > replace the mobo on their own? Let's take it further. What if the > entire thing including case and hardware could be printed on a 3d > printer, and the stl files were freely available? Keep the cost of the > entire thing down to $200 maybe $300 per unit. Allow a bit more if the > user wanted a braille display, maybe those could be 3d printed some > day too. I wonder if someone started something like that on > kickstarter, if it would take off? > > Greg > > > -- > web site: http://www.gregn.net > gpg public key: http://www.gregn.net/pubkey.asc > skype: gregn1 > (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) > If we haven't been in touch before, e-mail me before adding me to your contacts. > > -- > Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager@xxxxxx > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka, Phone: +1.443.300.2200 sip:janina@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Email: janina@xxxxxxxxxxx Linux Foundation Fellow Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup: http://a11y.org The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Chair, Accessible Platform Architectures http://www.w3.org/wai/apa _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
