>>(It isn't so much that BlasCap is commercially viable as that BlasTech
>>is like Coca-Cola - they rarely, if ever, willingly admit that they
>>thought of a product nobody really wants.)
>>
>I imagine that BlasTech has managed to keep the BlasCap division
>profitable, or at least to have it break even, in spite of
>no-name-knockoffs.

Well, if you don't take the development costs into account (and you don't, because they managed to bury those somewhere else in the audit that year), they don't cost very much to produce, and the company does virtually no marketing for them, so it doesn't take a lot of sales for the product line to at least not show a loss. By the 2400s they're one of those niche products most people have never heard of, and most of the rest are surprised to learn that you can still buy them. :)

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