The death of calculator market?

[medwatt]

I feel all these modern calculators are kind of useless. They are just fancy machines that seem to cater for the wrong audience. I graduated high school with Casio FX 115 calculator. I then went to do a bachelors in electrical engineering and a master's in microelectronics. You might be surprised to hear this but I have not had a need for anything more than a simple scientific calculator. Even as engineering student, I was hardly required to do any calculations. The only time I remember requiring the use of a calculator was in my introductory circuit analysis class where I needed to convert between Cartesian and Polar coordinates. I also found the Casio to be the best in this regard as you could transform between the two in just 1 keystroke. I find calculators like the Nsipre and Prime both very lacking and laborious for my use case. Neither of them allow you to create custom menus so that you can easily access your commonly used functions. I'm just not interested in hunting down a function deep inside functions tree. Besides this, every calculator manufacturer tries to force it's own specific programming language on the user, a skill that becomes useless when you stop using the calculator.