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From: ken@hpcupt3.cup.hp.com (Kenneth M. Sumrall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: HP-42S upgrade??
Message-ID: <48070003@hpcupt3.cup.hp.com>
Date: 3 Apr 91 21:25:32 GMT
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>I am looking to purchase an HP-42S calculator soon.  Does anyone know
>if HP has plans to release an upgraded 42S in the near future (re:
>release of HP-32SII makes HP-32S obsolete).  If they do, I would make
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>my purchase after the upgraded calculator is released.
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It is for this precise reason that computer and/or calculator companies
don't announce products before they are ready for sale.  If we announced
products a few months before they came out, everyone would stop buying
current products and wait for the new product.  The lost revenue would
then tranlate into fewer R&D dollars to spend on new products, and the
cycle would continue.  I agree it is frustrating to buy a product, and
then have a new version come out right after you bought it, but if the
old product was good enough for you to buy then, it should still be good
enough for you to use now.

>Kevin Macdonald
>Technical University of Nova Scotia
>Halifax, Nova Scotia
>
Disclaimer:  This is my own opinion.  It is not an opinion of HP, nor does
it represent an official position of HP.  I just felt like getting a soap
box today, and you are all lucky enough to have heard me speak.
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