Why are TI Calcs so inferior?

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Why are TI Calcs so inferior?

I've been looking over the tech specs for all the TI calculators, and
I can't argue that these calculators are spectacular. They are the
most ingenious pieces of equipment for school use and such. However,
they're hardware is very inferior. The hard disk so to speak only is
about 30K. The processor runs at 6MHz? It only has an assembly
language, not something better? My gosh, on today's technology, hd
space is 6 *cents* a meg? And hard drives are the size of a TI calc.
If u shrink down the hd to that of a mini cassette, and put it in the
TI, u could get about 1/3 a gig. And you could probably do better,
because I've seen a mini cassette for the computer that holds a gig,
and the drive it goes in to is only 1 cm bigger on each side. And the
chip? The 486 chips are like $30 bucks nowadays, and they run at
66MHz. AMD chips are $75 for a 133MHz version. And the display screen.
I've seen sony watchman that were smaller and they have a color screen
at 320x200.


Basically, what I'm saying is with today's current technology and its
cheapness, TI could probably come out with a calculator that could
outperform my computer (mine is a 486 DX2-50) for the same price as
their 92, and I don't know why they aren't trying.