The death of calculator market?

[David22]

(10-14-2020 08:06 AM)grsbanks Wrote:  

(10-14-2020 05:13 AM)Thomas Radtke Wrote:  So, more engineers use calculators than math students? That would be wonderful, but doesn't sound plausible, does it?

And if that were truly the case, why are manufacturers clearly taking their cues from the education market and designing calculators made for students rather than professionals?

I think professionals continue using mostly their "old" calculators, ones they are used to (and they know how to operate), but they usuarlly don't buy new calculators. So student market is where most sales are done today and manufactures go for that market.

I think we can saw it even on HP a lot of years ago: there are a lot of HP fans who never came to newer RPL models (HP 28/48/49/50) from their old 4-level RPN models. They were used to old RPN and didn't want or were unable to adapt to more powerful and newer RPL model.