I think we claimed that flash wear isn't a concern for the average user. I doubt that anybody said it was a total myth, just that it's unlikely to be an issue.

Well, if it's not in popularity, then I think it's safe to say that the 68k series is crippled in the speed and difficulty of its programming language.

Not sure what you're talking about, especially since you're a TI-68k programmer as well
* the TI-68k series' BASIC isn't significantly better or worse than the TI-Z80 series' BASIC (both being much better than the wimpy Nspire BASIC), and its functionality can be extended through external assembly programs programmed in C and/or ASM;
* the 68000 is much newer than the Z80, it has many registers for its time frame, powerful addressing modes, and it can natively perform a number of operations which are a nightmare with a Z80, for instance 32/16 division or 16*16 multiplication. 32/32 division is, at worst, 3 divisions; 32*32 multiplication is 4 16*16 multiplications;
* several alternative high-level languages are available, though none of them is very popular: GFA-Basic, Newprog (probably one of the programs closest in spirit to Axe), etc.

The cost is fairly high as well.

Yes, as a special case of the consumer price tag of all calculator models being way above the production cost.

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Well, if it's not in popularity, then I think it's safe to say that the 68k series is crippled in the speed and difficulty of its programming language.

Not sure what you're talking about, especially since you're a TI-68k programmer as well
* the TI-68k series' BASIC isn't significantly better or worse than the TI-Z80 series' BASIC (both being much better than the wimpy Nspire BASIC), and its functionality can be extended through external assembly programs programmed in C and/or ASM;

I said that editing and executing 68k-Basic programs were a pain, due to the editor and the inconvenient location of all of the drawing functions. (That's why I program mostly in C for the 68k series.) I agree with your post; the 68k variant of BASIC has more functionality, but at the cost of performance (one notable example being lists).

I reaaly wish TI would have mentioned what kind of processor this thing has on the specs page.

It's z80.

* several alternative high-level languages are available, though none of them is very popular: GFA-Basic, Newprog (probably one of the programs closest in spirit to Axe), etc.

Never heard of those
What calculators are those for?

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We've received official confirmation that even BASIC programs will not be fully backwards compatible, and FlashApps / ASM programs will definitely not be compatible.

http://www.techpoweredmath.com/confirmed-texas-instruments-release-color-ti-84/

"Apps between older models and the 84+ C are not compatible, so Texas Instruments is in the process of rewriting their most popular TI-84+ apps for the 84+ C. At the time of release, the TI-84+ C will come preloaded Finance, Inequalz, App4Math, CellSheet, EasyData, Plysmlt2, and Smartpad. Over the course of the summer of 2013, many more of the popular TI-84+ apps will be released for the 84+ C including Areaform, CabriJr, Conics, Periodic, ProbSim, SciTools, and Transfrm."

As for TI-BASIC I don't remember the source, but given the differently sized home screen and graph screen, you can see where the incompatibilities will crop up.

My guess about BASIC programs is that the trivial ones will work (things like, Input, for loops, some math calculations, and Disp), but graphics stuff will probbaly have to get rewritten.
Maybe we'll figure out some automatic converter, though, if it's easy enough to do.