The Role of the Graphing Calculator in 2021 and Beyond

[John Keith]

The only real difference between a real calculator and a calculator app on a phone is a physical keyboard. While I certainly prefer the physical keyboard, those of us that do are a small and ever-shrinking group. As I have said before, this is simply too small of a market for a large corporation to care about.

Swiss Micros is doing a good job of serving this market, and there are potential opportunities for competitors as long as they are realistic about the size of the market. At this point we can't rationally expect a company the size of HP to expend a large amount of time on calculator development.