What happens is that there are companies that will work on products like that, and then they will go on to sell said product for hundreds if not thousands of do

What happens is that there are companies that will work on products like that, and then they will go on to sell said product for hundreds if not thousands of dollars (if not more) to justify the cost of designing and producing the product. On the other hand, voiceover comes with all iPhone 3GSes and voiceover on Mac OS X is free and comes built into the OS (even during OS installs!). I guess that's Apple's way of telling blind people that Apple doesn't care about them and they should go buy other products..