The actuel Prime future...

[parisse]

(05-13-2015 09:13 PM)iconmaster Wrote:  We will continue to use graphing calculators for a long time in the future. It's a matter of security in education.
... The NSpire, the Prime, and other new calculators are locked down, reflecting the trend towards education.

I guess this thing came as a bit of a shock to me. I always loved writing custom calculator software, but the problem is the calculator world is not a place for me anymore. It is a place for institutions to create education standards in. It is not my place to disrupt this.

It is the end of a calculator era, really. An era for which many of us now do not belong.

This however raises the question : who control the education standards?
If the calcs remain locked, then it's TI, Casio and HP. Of course they take care of a few curriculum (the US mainly and a few inputs from other countries so that these countries governements believe they can change things).
It's a bad thing. We should fight against that, it's our freedom, we should control what we have paid for and not let other people decide what should be in a calc and what should not be. I'm not in a position to do anything for the HP Prime, but I made an attempt with Khicas on the TI Nspire, so that people buying a non-CAS nspire can run a CAS in their calculator.