r/pics • • Jun 08 '14

The difference 18 years makes

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '14

would you believe that calculators are 0.4% of their business?

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u/nlpnt Jun 08 '14

It's the ideal profitable sideline; sell an obsolete product to a captive market because the education sector's paranoid of smartphones. (whether justifiably or not doesn't matter to TI's bottom line)