A while ago we discussed where Sage would be a few years in the future
and one idea that was discussed was Sage running inside of a
calculator-sized device. These two articles indicate that this will
be feasible in a relatively short while:
http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=511
http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS2432070940.html
There are a number of possibilities here including a large calculator
company like TI coming out with a calculator that uses Sage as its
computation engine. I can't imagine any calculator company being able
to develop a computation engine that is anywhere near as powerful as
Sage and so creating a Sage-based calculator seems like a good idea to
me.
This article indicates that TI makes approximately $160-$170 million
dollars per year on calculator sales:
http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2007/06/11/texas_instruments_narrows_rev_earnings_forecast/
When I look into the future what comes to mind is the core Sage
development team being hired by one of the large calculator companies
to help create Sage-based super calculators and to also help them
expand into the Internet-based mathematics software market.
Ted
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