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Originally Posted by DWB
Everything Jobs said in that speech is true, but if Steve Jobs had only invented a braille computer for the blind, none of us would know who he is. Not that there isn't a market for that, but there are only so many blind people on earth who would buy his product. Unless he diversified and made other things in addition to that, his growth potential would be extremely limited.
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Actually the computer 'reader for the blind' market has been a massive source of revenue for one of the better inventors of the last 100 years. He turned it into a gold mine and continued releasing some amazing other inventions as well. Many tech-savvy people know exactly who Ray Kurzweil is, in part because of his computers for the blind inventions ;)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Kurzweil