HP50G not so good news?

[Benoit Maag]

Tim,

The HP-35s is out of stock again on hp.com/calculators
With the HP-50g being discontinued, this really feels like the end of an era

So indeed, what is left for 'professionals'?

It seems to me that what a 'generic professional' wants, is a pocket machine that consumes little power, turns on immediately, is 100% reliable, and can easily be customized for his most common needs.

No machine fits that need today - the Hp-50g is close enough but hard to use - a cell phone with a calculator app is not really customizable (though nothing could stop it from being so), and a PC does not fit in your pocket... it feels like there is indeed an unfulfilled need on the market. Is that your next move? Or will the opportunity be lost? Or maybe I am just hallucinating, regretting the good old cretaceous times...

(03-06-2015 04:44 PM)Tim Wessman Wrote:  

(03-05-2015 08:56 PM)Claudio L. Wrote:  Well, the silence from HP insiders in this forum can be interpreted two ways:
a) This was information that leaked accidentally and nobody is authorized to talk on the subject yet,
or
b) they are all thinking "huh? where that come from?" just like the rest of us.

I'll vote for option c.

c) not much else to say about it really


The big question as has been pointed out vaguely already is "what constitutes a professional". Unfortunately, that definition is completely different depending on what type of "professional" one is. For example, for one person the serial port might be the most important part of the device. While for a majority of others they never could care once about having it.

Marketing speak however is, and will always be, marketing speak. At least there is one "constant" in the universe that probably will never change... :-|