The death of calculator market?

[pier4r]

(11-02-2020 12:54 PM)vassilisprevelakis Wrote:  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.

I would agree if it wouldn't be for the input interface.

The keyboard of a real calculator is still much more accurate than a flat touchscreen. It is the same reason why we do not type long text with a touchscreen keyboard, although tablet could process extremely long texts.

If handheld could have a sort of "skin" to emulate a keybaord, then one wouldn't think twice about it.
On the other side, rooting (and thus invalidating exam mode) a capable tablet is somewhat easier than rooting a calculator with a relatively unknown OS.