The actuel Prime future...

[Don Shepherd]

(08-13-2014 09:33 PM)jebem Wrote:  So who cares about classic calculators these days?

Only members of this forum! And that's not exactly a market that a manufacturer could make lots of profits on.

Since HP is still making the 12c, it would seem the financial market still relies on the old tried-and-true. As younger people enter that market, that will likely change.

The education market has long embraced the TI world, but that's bound to change too. At the school where I teach (a very small school), neither of the two math teachers use calculators, nor do students.

The future probably belongs to smart phones. I'm not a fan of those, but tomorrow I turn 64, so I'm a fossil. I think calculators will soon follow.