Re: New pictures of HP Prime in hand Message #44 Posted by bhtooefr on 16 June 2013, 6:14 p.m., in response to message #36 by bluesun08
It's not price. HP already tried price with the 39gs and 40gs (which you could get for $50). For that matter, in Europe, the 39gII undercuts the 83+ (although not the 82 Stats) hard, while being far more capable than the 84+SE.
It's not games. People are working on that for the Casio Prizm.
It's marketing.
TI is a well-oiled marketing machine, aiming at every level of the educational system, with training teachers and professors how to use their calculators, marketing to school and school district boards, getting textbook authors and companies to include TI-specific instructions in their calculators, and encouraging testing bodies to allow their functionality (but not necessarily other functionality, and they do sometimes lose these battles - case in point, the TI-89 existing as a smaller form factor TI-92).
HP is not. Although, it looks like they're certainly trying with the Prime...
There is one way to compete on price, but the Prime can't do it that way - it's to compete on compatibility at the same time. Basically, exactly clone the TI user interface, right down to every button press for a legal function being identical.
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