HP Prime or HP 50g

[Claudio L.]

(07-11-2018 12:17 AM)JDW Wrote:  I just am personally curious about why there are no useful libraries for the Prime like for the 50g and earlier calcs. (And please don't tell me, "It's because the Prime is crap." Please!)

The answer is simple: because the Prime is being used by the "downloaders" generation. Younger kids do a web search and expect somebody else to have written the tools they need, very few code their own. Our generation grew without the internet, and we wrote our own simple tools with the only help of a printed manual (we had no choice, was that or do it manually).
It also doesn't help the fact that people nowadays carry a lot of portable computing power all the time. I can't recall seeing anybody going to college with a laptop when I was a student, but now everyone has a laptop or tablet plus a phone.
I don't think it has much to do with the Prime being a good or bad product.
A Prime does everything the 50g does and then some (but in a different way). I still prefer my 50g for crude number crunching, it's simply more efficient. But if you are looking for a product for your kids, they are most likely going to love the Prime, and with the same probability they will get frustrated and quickly abandon a 50g. Again, nothing to do with the products per se, but the way the brains of the newer generation are wired. Most people here are from the older generation, therefore they will be strongly biased towards old-school user interfaces (myself included in this group). Calling it "crap" is way too extreme in my view. I like the HP Prime, but can't stop using my 50g at the office. Instead of blaming the HP Prime, I simply accept that I'm too old to re-wire my brain, and I really don't need to.