Now I have a voice in my head saying "you were sooo stupid to buy this HP calculator"

[Sukiari]

(08-02-2015 02:17 AM)Marcio Wrote:  

(08-01-2015 05:47 PM)Sukiari Wrote:  HP needs to make a calculator for professionals again, instead of another hare-brained attempt at a student learning machine.

There is no longer a calculator market for the professional engineer. Today's scientific calculator industry is focused solely on the student. TI and Casio are dominant and HP does not even seem to be trying very hard to catch up (for a bunch of reasons, limited resources, bad decisions etc.).

There certainly are many professionals who need a calculator. Casio is now making a weatherproof unit with backlit keys and a backlit screen. Clearly they thought it would be useful to make a new machine like this.

There are in fact many many people who still use calculators. What I see is that HP looked at the education market as the largest and concentrated on that.

It may be that there is a smaller market than in the past, but it is there. Whether it makes sense for HP to go after these markets is up to the executives.

We can all hope that the HP's calculator division is spun off into its own entity like Agilent was.