This is just sad. Texas Instrument's quality control has been lacking for years, and it only seems to be getting worse. It amazes me how many issues they've had with the Nspire since it's release.

Yeh, about now some teachers have to be wondering what they got into by buying nspires and navigator systems for their classes only to find that OS 3.0 and nspire cx made all that obsolete.  I mean they could have went the safe route with 84 or the more recent Prizm and saved all those head aches. 

It looks like ti's quality control problem is that they don't have any quality control.  The business model seems to be "throw it out there, let the customer find out if it works, and fix it later."  Wonder what cx problems will be discovered when it becomes available?

     

Yes, they would.

Wow.  I thought that be against the law or something.  Do they at least have to warn people that they are buying a flawed product?

They probably wish OS 2.71MP became a reality. (well... without the bugs, that is)

The sad thing is that none of this had to happen.  TI created push to test to prevent cheating  and they could have created something similiar, to prevent games being used during class only.  Then they could have worked with the developer community, instead of trying to stamp it out, and sanctioned 3rd party programs like smart cell phones do, and that would have made their nspires even more popular, but no they chose to take sides and stamp out games just to suck up to teachers.  (Thats the sucking sound that you hear when you get near an nspire.) 

When popular games get ported to the Prizm and students start buying the Prizm as a result, TI will have to rethink their position.  I just hope that Casio won't make the same mistake that TI did and also try to destroy the developer community.  Actually in many ways it is in Casio's best interest to work with the developer community.  You might write to them suggesting that they work with us.  If there was a Casio online app store similiar to what Apple has for their iphone that would be hugely beneficial for promoting Prizm sales!         

The Prizm is a really nice alternative to the nspire and if we talk up the Prizm to teachers that can work because the Prizm is more cost effective (costs less).  Teachers can't be to happy that TI sold them grayscale nspires while TI was planning to obsolete those gray scale models with the cx color screen model.  Is TI going to use that Os in the future?  That worries me.   I think TI was testing the developer community to see what we would do if they locked down the 84.

When I went to order a cx from Underwood distributing I was told that the slide cover is a separate item and costs $5 extra which to my way of thinking is pretty steep for a five cent piece of plastic so I cancelled my order. 

Very awesome considering that the Prizm has only been around a month or so.