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this doesn't surprise me at all. I've had many negative experiences with companies that make disability aids. the target market is poor and vulnerable, they're
by sterlind 5y ago
this doesn't surprise me at all. I've had many negative experiences with companies that make disability aids. the target market is poor and vulnerable, they're often monopolies, and they can charge tons of money for crappy tech through insurance.
I bet insurance companies declined to pay what they wanted and they decided to pack up shop in search of a bigger exit. wonder if they ever lose sleep about their abandoned users.
- masklinn 5y agoAll this, plus the fact that there are lots of pathologies which can lead to similar results, so the effective target market for assistive devices tends to be much smaller than even the small market originally expected. Further shrunk by communities “closing up” from a combination of having been burned too many times, discrimination / in-group assistance, and viewing attempts to “fix” them as ableism, accommodation refusal, and further efforts to shun them / discriminate against them / divide them. See e.g. colchear implants in the deaf community.