Re: HP CALCS Message #2 Posted by Martin Pinckney on 18 July 2008, 1:40 p.m., in response to message #1 by designnut
Hi, Sam.
Did you mean to say HP calculator division?
I think it is simply that their market research told them that the time was right to start proliferating new calculator models.
If you look at almost any product area today, there is a huge amount of variety available, and products today are sold as short-term useful life items, especially electronics. It is tied to three things: constantly changing technology, the relative affluence of western society, and our throw-away mentality (which itself has been at least in part fostered by the manufacturing/marketing industry).
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