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From the article: "Apple sells an iPod touch for $199 that comes with 16 gigabytes of memory" I tend to let it slide when people get memory and storage confus
by RIMR 12y ago
From the article:
"Apple sells an iPod touch for $199 that comes with 16 gigabytes of memory"
I tend to let it slide when people get memory and storage confused, but I hold journalists to a higher standard. This isn't even a semantic error; this came right after describing the RAM capacity of a TI-84 Plus C Silver. Nothing Matt McFarland wrote in this article was wrong, but it certainly wasn't highly-informed either...
Comparing TI calculators to consumer electronics is a rather moot point. It's better to compare against the plummeting costs of microcomputers in general. The Raspberry Pi is better proof that TI is marking their products up 1000%+! Nobody needs a calculator with a 1GHz processor and 512GB of RAM, and 8-128GB of flash storage, so why are we paying for even more than what that would cost?
- zanny 12y ago> so why are we paying for even more than what that would cost? Because TI has tried in the past to introduce more powerful calculators, and that fell flat. The 84 exists because schools expect it. That is all. Until they accept your smartphone as a calculator, TI can markup the 84 as much as they want and everyone has to buy it because there is no free market in school calculators.