The death of calculator market?

[fakuivan]

Calculators are not practical anymore, except for stupid on-premise exams that only evaluate the student in isolation, not at all the scenario they'll be working in in the future. You have much powerful tools available nowadays. As for what some have said about the experience being "unified", that is not unique to calculators, that happens with any general purpose math software like Xcas (shares CAS with the HP prime), matlab, python, julia, all are general purpose and have their offerings.

I personally use the HP Prime as a toy where I can play around with giac CAS. I find the language quite interesting and it can be addictive sometimes, like lisp but with many math features. I sometimes find myself playing with it just like I'd do with games or social media on my phone sometimes leaving it on my nightstand or taking it to the toilet lol. The keyboard layout is horrible but after more than 1000 lines of code and countless exams you get used to it. Debugging is practically non existent on my hardware, it crashes as soon as I call the debug function. The screen is super tiny, but it horizontally fits as many characters as the github page on the default size.

So I totally agree calculators don't have a profitable market outside "physical" schools, but I think I'm going to keep enjoying mine to goof around.