The death of calculator market?

[CMarangon]

Hello!

Since 1998 I am saying that HP calculators will, in the future, be part of a multiuse device.
Well, today 24 years after, it is happening.

Smartphone outperformed many devices, like for example, telephones, alarm clocks, simple calculators, clocks, radios, k-7 players and so on.

Smartphones have a market of million people, for example,
China 1,100,000,000
India 893,862,000
USA 310,000,000
Brazil 210,00,000
Source: sorry, I lost it:-(

Calculators have a little part of the market, maybe there are about 200 millions user arround the world. (Who knows? I was unable to find it at Google)

It seems, in my umble opinion , that calculators will become part of a multiuse device, like smartphones, laps, tablets and computers.
At Google Play you can find a lot of calculators applets for smartphones.

Companies that make calculators like HP, Texas Instruments, Casio and so on, will invest in memory and softwares for computers and other devices. Softwares able to emulate calculators.

We already have EMU48 and HP Prime emulator.

I am also in Latin America (Brazil).

I think that market for calculators are low now, during covid's time, but it will react when it pass away.
Well, I am listen to people say since march 2020, that it will pass soon...

Kind regard,

Carlos

(06-09-2020 08:33 AM)Carlos295pz Wrote:  Due to the current situation, many countries have opted for distance education for a long period, and it seems that education will take that course because it will find great benefits. The PC and smartphones will take the true importance in education, at least one more massive and current for these times (They are re-claimed).

I do not pretend to be fatalistic, however is a reformulation of the capabilities of the current calculator software planned? is that possible? Why would someone be interested in buying a calculator right now? a long time has passed and we have not yet received a statement. Is starting to charge for the virtual-PC calculator one of the measures?

LATIN AMERICA: The student will no longer leave home, why would he need a calculator if his work will be perennial on the computer and the phone with educational tools that were always at hand but that many times due to the ineptitude of the teachers not were used properly, For now I have been very careful with this and I do not recommend buying in case you ask me.