For those of you in favor of pressuring the FCC to force Apple to make the iPhone accessible, can you give specific reasons why you feel this is oK, rather than simply that you want an iPhone and you legally can? What makes it morally acceptable to allow the government to be so interfering in a private company's development of a product?
There are certain specific areas where the government needs to regulate, such as the use of hazardous materials to produce the item, or safety issues, particularly in products that may be used by children, and similar things. But these are to the good of the general public. There are countless products produced all around the world that can't be used by one disabled group or another. We may not like it, but that is how it is. I wish i could walk into a book store and buy any book I want in Braille for the same price as the print edition. I can't. i want to be able to walk into a grocery store and read the nutritional information on the back of a box of cereal, but i can't. How hard would it be to emboss some basic information in Braille on the sides of cereal boxes? Not very. But I wouldn't want the government to start forcing Kellog's or General Mills to do so.
