Re: A89: Re: Simple Solutiony

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Re: A89: Re: Simple Solutiony


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> From: Bryan E Rabeler <rabelerb@pilot.msu.edu>
> To: <assembly-89@lists.ticalc.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 1999 5:28 PM
> Subject: Re: A89: Re: Simple Solution
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> > Also note that a vast majority of TI's customers are schools, teachers,
> > students who don't play games and just use it for math class, etc.  Us
> > programmers and TI fans who play games make up a relatively small
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> > TI's customers.  If you look at this from a purely business standpoint,
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> > can do this and get away with it, because *most* of their customers don't
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> > and don't know the difference.
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> > Bryan
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> Have you walked through a high school recently? At least 90% of the people
> with ANY graphing calculator has games or knows how to get them. And you
> can't tell me that calcs would be nearly as popular without games. Yeah,
> while the calcs would still sell and TI would make money without games, it's
> not nearly as much as if they'd, at the least, leave us be.
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> I don't know... I'm tired of guessing. Anyone know a way we can demand the
> official position of TI on the whole game issue and find out what the hell
> they're up to?!
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> -Zero
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What??  90% of all high school students know how to get games on their graphing
calculator?  I think not.  What percentage do you think actually own link
cables?  Probably 5-10% max.  It's not a matter of popularity.  With TI, they
have a lock on the market, at least right now, because teachers require TI's in
their classroom.  And obviously, teachers do not care about games or
grayscale.

I really don't know what TI is trying to do here, maybe they are trying to take
a gamble at this.  They think since they have a near-lock on this market, they
can lock us game/grayscale programmers out and it won't matter in the long run.
 They just might be wrong.

Good luck at getting any official position out of TI.  It won't happen.  They
have to stay on the teachers' good side.

Bryan
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