[Off-topic] HP Prime is for students... What about professionals?
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10-16-2017, 12:25 AM
(This post was last modified: 10-21-2017 07:11 AM by Joseph_21sv.)
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RE: [Off-topic] HP Prime is for students... What about professionals?
(08-21-2017 07:37 PM)matthiaspaul Wrote:(08-20-2017 07:32 PM)Eric Rechlin Wrote: This means that the student market is the only truly relevant market anymore. As much as I'd like to see a new calculator for professionals, I acknowledge that the likely market size would be too small to make it profitable.However, HP is already targeting multiple platforms at once (physical calculator in three revisions, PC emulator, adaptations to various smartphones), so it appears relatively easy to add yet another similar variant. A physical calculator based on the Prime, but with beeper, SD card support and (optional) support for standard batteries, and firmware-wise without Exam mode, but various additions in the software which might be unsuitable for a calculator for pupils, but are easy enough to add to not cause major development. If maintaining two similar hardware models would be cost-prohibitive, putting all the features into a single model and disable undesired features in exam mode would increase the price of the calculator only marginally. In the worst case, two different firmwares could be made available, a closed system with exam mode, and another more open one without exam mode, where experienced users could even start implementing system extensions, thereby accelerating development and adding features which would be uneconomically for HP to work on. A student can have a calculator with an exam mode, but never bring it to exams, thus mooting the existence of its exam mode by voluntarily never needing to invoke that mode. Requiring an exam mode to be implemented in calculators with advanced features which are aimed at secondary school students is nothing but a waffly way of "allowing" them to be admitted into secondary school level exams in several countries around the world. |
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