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Originally Posted by sbroome
Love these manipulative articles that find an extremely sympathetic demographic (little girls that can't speak are great) and pull on people's heart strings even if their point doesn't matter.
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What's more manipulative, using a girl to get leverage against a company, or the company (which is never required to show how much the R&D actually costs thanks to the fear of ZOMG COMMUNISM!) deciding it has a captive market and gouging for prices? Or maybe setting the price unaffordably high so somebody will create a government program like Medicare to pay for it, so the parents don't have to but the corporation still makes obscene profits?
And then there's also the possibility that some of the patents are overly broad, like, "A device including a keyboard, which plays recorded or synthesized human speech when a key or button is pressed."
I'm inclined to side with the family, though. Stuff like this really should fall into the category of "I'm making this to make someone's life better and damn the profits" instead of "I'm gonna make everyone PAY THROUGH THE NOSE!"