Re: A89: Re: Re: Re: Re: Grayscale troubles
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Re: A89: Re: Re: Re: Re: Grayscale troubles
TI's main (and only) market for these calculators is the educational market.
They sell their calculators to teachers and school decision makers, THEY DON'T
SELL CALCULATORS TO STUDENTS. They sell the teachers on them, and the teachers
then specify them. For each teacher who knows how to teach with a TI
calculator, TI has a dedicated sale of 80 - 500 calculators/year.
If TI openly provides an easy way to use grayscale, many teachers will turn to
another calulator, or not teach with one at all. Therefore it is not in their
best interest (financially) to do so.
The fact that TI can sell the TI-89 for as little as it does is only becaus eof
the volume they sell these things in. Were they to allow game programming (ie,
grayscale) then their market would drop so much that they wouldn't be worth
their time to build them.
-Adam
PsyKaBek@aol.com wrote:
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> Why wouldnt Ti want grayscale?
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> -Kent
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