The WP 43s: Is it dead?

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(01-16-2017 11:35 AM)Dave Britten Wrote:  

(01-14-2017 06:41 PM)dylanmc Wrote:  Oh, that actually makes sense. I bought the PDF of the manual, and was shocked that it was so egregiously watermarked that I couldn't read it on my color iPad. I complained about it, and he got defensive and abusive towards me. Not a stable individual, in my assessment. Sigh. It was a neat project.

Yeah, two things are holding back the 34S in my opinion: the shoddy keyboard of the 30b, and the really strange behavior regarding the manual for this open source project.

Dave; Yes. Those two things, plus:
-The funky top line of the screen. Two lines modeled on the bottom line would have been much better for high end calculator purposes.
-Much of the ample-in-size memory is not of a type easily accessible to us mortals and so goes unused.
-Discontinuation of the hardware.

I like them enough to have worn out a 20b conversion and am now on a 30b, but there were hardware problems that were unsurmountable. Sam Kim's vision for the 20b-30b was as a third-party programmable platform and keyboard for others to buy and use on their products. As that it was a success but not in sales for that.