I assume they did this because of pressure from standardized test administrators. That other article from today about universities phasing out standardized tes

I assume they did this because of pressure from standardized test administrators. That other article from today about universities phasing out standardized tests is bad news for TI, because nobody would choose their calculators on technological merits. With standardized tests gone, there is no reason to pay $200 for 1 cent microcontroller and a 3 cent screen. Now kids can learn mathematics with something like Mathematica; rich graphics, smart algebraic expansion/simplification, etc. (Like many others, I have fond memories of programming my TI-80, TI-83, and TI-89... but I also got to use Mathematica at school and kind of wondered why these calculators existed then. I got so much out of animating and exploring everything. Waiting 10 seconds for a TI-80 to graph a parabola was just not as exciting after using that.)