The death of calculator market?

[JimP]

It would be a sad day if the calculator market dried up completely. Sure, “app”lications on smartphones have effectively (and in some cases quite nicely) removed the need for a physical calculator, but there’s the ever present threat that when one is speaking on the phone, there is a need for a calculation to be performed. At least among scientists....probably engineers too, can’t speak for physicians! As one who is yet to master the concept of switching from the “phone” application to any other without cutting off the conversation unexpectedly, I’ll gladly keep my trusty HP Prime and a few other go-tos handy at my desk to tackle the issue, without having to fire up some other kind of program requiring mouse input etc. This is not to say I don’t have a few calculator applications on my phone, but I still greatly prefer the separate device and won’t even travel anywhere without one. One day that might result in me being classified as a neo-Luddite, but that’s OK!