The 50g uses the O.S. of the 49g (which is an enhancement of the 48G some say), so from a software point of view this is still pretty much the same.
The point is that HP does not really bother to fix errors in their calculators – even if they are public knowledge.
Which leads to the point that HP, as company does not really care, too.
Which, again, is not very surprising as they have mutated into a box-mover long ago ... and with fixing bugs you can not earn money, it costs money.
With rushing out buggy products you can earn money – to a certain point, but by that the management person that is responsible for the disaster will be gone.
The poor guys blamed then are the developers, trying to explain why HP is internally such a mess and why bug fixing is so hard, etc. etc.
And never ever will you get an official statement about a bug in a HP product as that would be a legal issue !
So what we have here is the result of the majority of customers demanding *cheap* products and companies maximizing *short term* profits.
And there you go again with a fundamental economic law:
"There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper. People who consider price only are this man’s lawful prey.
It is unwise to pay too much, but it is even worse to pay too little. If you pay too much, you lose some money, that is all. If you pay too little, however, you will sometimes lose everything, as the thing you bought cannot do the intended job.
The law of economy forbids to obtain something of high value for little money. If you accept the lowest bid, you must add something for the risk taken by you. And if you do so, you have enough money to pay for something of higher value."
John Ruskin (1819-1900)
Regards,
Andreas
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