Anthony,

The reason you have to pay so much for products like the Stream is that so 
few of them are sold.  If you could sell a hundred million of them over the 
life cycle of the product, then the price would come down.  As it is, 
Humanware has sold about ten thousand, and they consider that a success. 
With those numbers, you can't begin to cover the costs of manufacturing with 
a $50 price tag.  I know that's not what you want to hear, but it's economic 
reality.

Steve

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Anthony Vece" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2009 08:02
Subject: Re: breaking news!


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> Technology should b a lot more reasonable.
>
> I mean someone could buy a MP3 player or get one for free with almost 
> every
> feature in the world and, we need to pay $300.00 and up for a VR stream.
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Harvey Heagy" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2009 7:42 AM
> Subject: Re: breaking news!
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>> Howard, there's everything wrong with that.  We have expenses unique to
>> our
>> blindness such as maintaining adaptive technology, transportation that in
>> many cases involves taxi cabs to and from work and other things.  It is
>> nearly impossible to bare those expenses and those of daily living with a
>> minimum wage job.
>> Harvey
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