Re: The BrailleNote Touch is Getting a Much Deserved Upgrade
Okay so I'm a bit confused.
You take the price of the display, add on 500 dollars for the tablet which is probably a bit generous, and then you add like a hundred bucks for the keyboard cover and 50 for the case.
Where is the other two thirds coming from. Is licensing really that expensive? Because I can't imagine it topping a couple hundred per unit at most.
I guess it's mainly development cost, paying the coders for their time making the custom software, and some of the custom parts like the braille keyboard and case are going to have a markup because they are such a tiny production run and have no use outside of this market.
You also need to pay the employees who service units and those who answer the phones (though I think they outsource that part now) I don't know their internal numbers, how much profit they make per unit, how many units they sell ETC. They don't have a full corner on the market, but their name is well known to schools and accessibility organizations.
I just don't know. But I feel like they might have expanded out of exclusive access tech if they were really rolling in dough. The fact that they haven't makes me think that their holding onto this niche they have for dear life and don't dare play in the mainstream.
Also, we used to pay similar for much worse hardware than this, so at least we're getting something a bit closer to our money's worth now..
On another note, I think it's very commendable that they offered discounts for those that bought the standard touch just before this came out, and that they are offering display only replacements. You'd never get that kind of consideration from a laptop manufacturer, at least not outside of an internal corporate supply chain.
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