It's time to switch our support to Casio and not give any further business to ti from us, our friends, our family members, or any potential customers that we can influence.  In addition, it would be helpful to contact your school board and ask them to replace any math teachers who teach nspire operation when they should be teaching math.  That should give ti a bit of an additude adjustment.   

...In addition, it would be helpful to contact your school board and ask them to replace any math teachers who teach nspire operation when they should be teaching math.  That should give ti a bit of an additude adjustment.   

Are you serious? No school board would replace a teacher because of the brand of calculator their class uses, especially because there's little interest in C/ASM programming outside of niche sites like this.

I just edited the news since Critor was referring to me directly and what I said and Melendy Lovett, so I thought I had to edit it.

Here's what I added (it was about Ndless blocking on 3.2, when I met Melendy Lovett) :

(These are examples that I myself refer to, I don't think she was the one to bring these examples in.
What she insisted on, and I think it's fair to write about this here, in order to have some objectivity, is that TI is liked "ruled" by its clients, and its main clients are teachers and schools. Meaning that they have to make what teachers want, and they listen to teachers and what they say. Since TI and the teachers are really close, TI can't really allow multiple opposite "development directions", and rather than do as what the community would like, they have to align with what the teachers want, most often. The thing is that there is a real trust relationship between TI and the teachers, and TI thus can't lose this trust by providing tools/devices that can (in the bad case, but since it's a possibility that cannot be marginal, it has to be said) not be trusted because some people can crack it and do things they normally wouldn't be able to do. As teachers want to feel safe about TI products, TI has to provide such products, that's why they try to block Ndless at each update : "protect the teachers" to avoid losing the trust they have established.)


So, maybe this explanation(s) from TI are new for some of you (it was for me at the time), and there are valid arguments on both the community side and the teacher side, but since on this forum, it's the community who is represented, I don't think I'm going to have much success in talking a lot about TI's "closed" Nspire (even though they made a great step ahead with Lua !).

Anyway, as people said, it's always like a game between TI and Ndless, and if it's actually blocked in 3.2, it's also going to get cracked at some point, but it's going to take a while, and that's sad for people who just want to have full access to a device they bought...

I personally think that, even if I'm a TI-Planet co-admin, a lot more people would go update to 3.2 even if they know they'll lose ndless, because TI made honestly some great efforts in this 3.2 update.
The Lua inside is really great (Native Physics Engine binding is ... wow !), there are a numbers of bug fixes and a number of new features, and this can be a game changer for people who were on ndless'd OSes before but didn't really used ndless programs that often. (And I'm an example of this kind of people. I obviously do enjoy nDoom, GBC4nspire, mViewer, etc. and it certainly won't be replaced by whatever TI will do, this is sure), but as I'm a Lua fan, I'll have to update to stay at the latest things available...
(Oh well, I guess it's nice that I have multiple CX to have multiple OSes with ndlessed ones and official ones...



Anyway... Thanks for reading that long post, maybe some of you will find it interesting.

One of the main things that teachers traditionally don't want is games... yet, TI is adding a physics engine to the OS, and a physics engine aims at stuff much more complicated than constant acceleration parabolics (and simple educational needs that don't require a complete physics engine)...
Could they explain this apparent contradiction ?

I agree with much of what Adrien said, and I too am mainly a Lua fun.

But I think that somewhere there is a solution to this, but TI isn't looking enough.
I understand TI's concerns, but they are too fast in cutting of the community.

Okay I cannot read that without newlines I get your point, but I can understand why they do not approve "jailbreaking". TI is professional and not some open-source internet user.

However, I am not sure if that would make them change their mind.

Rather, I am sure that it would not make them change their mind