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doesn't the company that claims to have invented it first have a product in the market?

• regularfry 14y ago
  Not one that's good enough, apparently.
  • gcb 14y ago
    I feel the discussion may be either: Cheap enough or marketed enough. Because never the article talk about it. So either it's cost prohibitive, our they couldn't even find it's existence. But again... If it were life changing...
    • regularfry 14y ago
      Perhaps you missed this passage on a first read-through: What would happen if we lost SfY? I have no idea. As I’ve explained before, we have tried other communication apps and didn’t find any that were a good match for Maya. Interestingly, we also carefully considered purchasing a communication device from PRC, and met with one of their representatives in November, nine weeks before a post on my Facebook wall introduced me to SfY (and seven weeks before it even existed in the iTunes store). We examined PRC’s devices and were disappointed to see that they weren’t a good fit for Maya. For us, this wasn’t an issue of an expensive device versus a “cheap” app. This was an issue of an ineffective device (for Maya) versus an app that she understood and embraced immediately. The only app, the only system, that she immediately adopted as her own way of communicating.
• sp332 14y ago
  No, the first company makes standalone devices. The (allegedly) infringing company, which I think was founded by former employees, makes an iPad app.