While I agree that I've never really felt that limited by the 89 for something that I wanted to do on a calculator anyway, but the price is absolutely ridiculous. The prices on calculators have barely dropped anything the last 10 years (and the calculators themselves have barely adopted either, you still get 32 KB of ram on the lower end (that still cost > $100)) and if it weren't for schools requiring them I have a hard time seeing how they would survive.

For the same pricepoint you will pretty much be able to get an android tablet with many hundred megabytes of RAM and gigabytes of storage combined with WIFI, bluetooth etc. etc. But these devices will of course not be allowed on an exam.

Not saying that a regular calculator doesn't have advantages over a touch interface but damn are they overpriced and there sure are advantages to a tablet as well, being able to zoom a graph decently (fast) and having like a hundred times more real estate that you could easily copy+paste within etc.

Yes, I'd still want a real calculator but no, I would never buy one at the price point they sell today.