New G2 HP Prime

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(11-10-2018 08:03 AM)Sukiari Wrote:  

(11-09-2018 07:58 PM)Steve Simpkin Wrote:  Gee, nice attitude John.
You make it sound so easy to design, market and support a complex product like this. You should probably start a business making your own model of graphing CAS calculator just like you described. You will probably make a fortune displacing T1 in the marketplace and they you can tell everyone how smart you were.

Get real, the graphing calc market is dominated by TI because the textbook companies are in bed with them. There was no hope for HP in education at all. They could have made an engineer’s RPN / RPL machine and sold these things for $300 a pop like SwissMicros and maintained a reputation for quality. Instead we have color screens and unobtanium lithium proprietary batteries and test modes and etc.

The DM42 should have been made by HP 10 years ago. The profit per unit is much higher than the Prime. Chasing after a market like education when every single textbook gives instructions for only TI is silly. Carly’s gone but the directionless wandering and aim toward LCD products instead of quality remains. I know a few former Corvallis HP alums and they aren’t happy.

In the future HP’s calculator division will be praised for keeping the 12c and castigated for all the other crap they’ve been up to.

There is an education market outside of the United States. I suspect that they have made some headway there since the US market is completely dominated by TI (based only on my own personal observations). Otherwise, you would be right since there would be no point jumping into a market that does not give them any profit margins.