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Originally Posted by HarryT
The high price probably reflects R&D costs rather than the costs of manufacturing the actual device. It may not be economically viable to offer it as a $50 (or whatever) iPad app; it's a very specialist market sector.
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That was exactly what I was thinking. Now they offer it for $8000.- and perhaps expect to sell a few 100 items. Now if some government agency bought 10,000 apps for the handicapped, why not sell those for $500 (no hardware is involved) and restrict them to a special sales channel? They might still sell their regular product at the normal price.
Just a thought and some random numbers, the knock-off already cost a lot more than $50.