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(09-13-2015 02:06 AM)webmasterpdx Wrote:  You do know that most customers for this product are NOT kids doing school exams....right?

Hmm, HP is precisely trying to get as many school students to use the Prime. Looks to me like it's a whole new goal from other previous calcs (at least from a marketing PoV; we see that quite clearly on TI-Planet for example: there has never been as many members with HP calcs (the Prime, in this case) as there are now)
Also, for instance in France, an exam mode will be required starting 2018, so HP doesn't want to have to deal with native programs messing with it. It could potentially have bad consequences for them, like the government deciding the HP Prime can't be trusted thus can't be accepted in an exam (even if it does have the exam LED and test mode).
That's also valid for Casio or TI, even though those two are far more dominant in the market than HP is AFAIK, so a lot more people wouldn't like having TI ousted (and well, politics, lobbies, etc....)