Yes, Ana G and Mike Pietrik nailed it! Unfortunately, this move towards monopoly or monopolistic competition has been going on for quite some time within the sighted community so it should be no surprise that this is taking place within the community for blindness products as well (in fact, one should be less surprised by its happening within the blindness community, given that the blind and visually impaired populations are such an insignificant portion of the total population). On the bright side, I have heard about some movement in the availability of inexpensive braille displays in one, and possibly two, other corners, and that, at least, may keep VFO from raising braille display prices in the near term.
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Ted Chittenden
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---- Dorene Cornwell <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
I agree with ana.
I wonder whether anyone has raised antitrust concerns, also whether it is too late to do so.
Dorene C
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Ana G <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>I'm not sure I understand the benefit of this merger. So now VFO Group
>owns two competing screen readers, two competing screen magnifiers, and
>two competing lines of braille displays. That sounds like VFO can raise
>prices or stop developing one of the competing lines in favor of the other.
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>On 6/14/2016 8:27 AM, Terri Hedgpeth wrote:
>> My conclusion from this announcement is that AIsquared couldn't cut it.
>> Don't kid yourselves, this means there will be fewer options to the blindness community. This buy out in my mind is likely due to a series of poor business and management decisions over the past few years by AISquared.
>> No attacks please, I am just giving my opinion.
>> Terri
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>> Terri Hedgpeth, Ed.D.
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>> All I can say right now is wow! This is huge news from the world of Adaptive Technology and at least for me, very unexpected. I haven't processed this fully yet to put my thoughts and opinions together on it.
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>> AI Squared Joins VFO Group, read more here:
>> http://www.aisquared.com/news/ai-squared-joins-vfo/.
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