The death of calculator market?

[vassilisprevelakis]

(06-09-2020 09:05 PM)Dave Britten Wrote:  In a traditional classroom setting, sure, but when all of your students are in their own homes having class via Zoom/WebEx/Google Meet, it's pretty much impossible to police what device they're using. I suspect TI is a bit nervous about what their back-to-school revenues will look like this fall.

Here in Germany, my 12 years old son's school sent me a form for a group buy of CASIO calculators (Classpad II FX-CP400) for the entire class.

And this in the middle of the Covid lockdown.

So given how conservative teachers are, I don't see Texas and Casio losing any sleep.

HP on the other hand is way behind in winning the hearts and minds of the teachers, so it is slowly being sidelined.

I think that in the long term we'll end up with tablets that offer calculator functionality together with all the other fancy stuff. We will then have to find a way to turn off the non-educational stuff so that students can use their tablets at school without distractions.

Why should I pay 150 EUR for a calculator with a tiny screen, when I can get a perfectly good tablet with a 10 inch screen for around 200 EUR. It does not make any sense.

After all even the calculators have "exam mode" to turn off features, why not a tablet? Its just software.

**vp

PS Of course I have my trusted HP-19C on my desk which is a small, does most of what I want to do, and has that cute little printer. I'll be heartbroken when it dies.