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Re: TI buys Omnimaga
« Reply #15 on: April 01, 2014, 04:36:17 am »
So does Omni members now get TI calcs for half the price? :P

I'll still hug my HP Prime, though. :P (and to a lesser extent my 84+C)

You can do whatever you want, but all HP and Casio sections are in the process of being removed(as this is a TI site).


Also, apparently TI is refocusing it's efforts:

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Re: TI buys Omnimaga
« Reply #16 on: April 01, 2014, 06:03:04 am »
Yup, this is so awesome :)

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Re: TI buys Omnimaga
« Reply #17 on: April 01, 2014, 06:42:20 am »
so, are we going to get a new os for the ti84+?
i would love to have a stable mathprint os :D
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Re: TI buys Omnimaga
« Reply #18 on: April 01, 2014, 06:52:54 am »
so, are we going to get a new os for the ti84+?
i would love to have a stable mathprint os :D

No, but I hear a new OS is coming for the TI-89.

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Re: TI buys Omnimaga
« Reply #19 on: April 01, 2014, 09:06:25 am »
Yay! Maybe Ndless will not be necessary now.

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Re: TI buys Omnimaga
« Reply #20 on: April 01, 2014, 12:13:03 pm »
This is awesome! I hope they integrate Ndless into the OS and join the Ndless team, that would be great :)
Maybe they can make it so that elf2flt doesn't freeze your computer and take forever when linking with libstdc++.

As for HP and Casio, no one uses those anyway, and besides, TI will probably buy them in the future.
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Re: TI buys Omnimaga
« Reply #21 on: April 01, 2014, 12:29:05 pm »
Hey guys this is right around April 1st and the interview was posted on ti planet a few weeks ago.  I think this is totally fake don't get your hopes up.  (Did you guys forget the April fools joke about os 3.57mp (or some other number like it) that prevented all third party code from running (no third party apps, no asm( ) ).  But ti removed the download link but the admin had a "copy" of it that he had made by patching os 2.55mp to remove third party asm.  He even released a patcher for the "new" os that gave back third party asm abilities.  For a very long time (mostly) everyone believed it.  This is just the same.   ;)   (Doesn't it seem fishy that there is absolutely NOTHING on tiplanet about this?  I this were true tiplanet would be practically throwing a party.)   I would also like this to be true but the evidence otherwise is overwhelming.

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Re: TI buys Omnimaga
« Reply #22 on: April 01, 2014, 12:35:41 pm »
Some details obviously had to be kept quiet until they were ready to be released. Also, why would TI-Planet be throwing a party? ???

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Re: TI buys Omnimaga
« Reply #23 on: April 01, 2014, 02:05:37 pm »
Because it would likely mean ti may support ndless or third party compiled programs to some extent.  Any time any new calculator comes out or anything special they are the first the review it or talk about it.  based on how excited we are getting here they would be far more excited than us at ti working directly with the community.  That is where I got my metaphor (it was maybe a bit too hyperbolic though  :P ).  Seriously though there isn't anything on ti planet.

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Re: TI buys Omnimaga
« Reply #24 on: April 01, 2014, 02:12:39 pm »
TI Planet is the "behind-the-scenes" community. They are not ready to announce their integration yet, unfortunately.

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Re: TI buys Omnimaga
« Reply #25 on: April 01, 2014, 02:13:38 pm »
yeah i must admit it is kinda wierd that tiplanet hasn't posted a single thing about this...

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Re: TI buys Omnimaga
« Reply #26 on: April 01, 2014, 03:11:12 pm »
Hey guys this is right around April 1st
I think quite everyone got that but was continuing the joke. In fact the first thing that occured to me when I saw the topic title was Facebook buying Mojang so I was in joke mode before I started reading the post.
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Re: TI buys Omnimaga
« Reply #27 on: April 01, 2014, 03:15:08 pm »
Still not sure why Aspiring thinks this is a joke ??? I've seen official papers and such bearing enough evidence that Omni was in fact bought by TI.
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Re: TI buys Omnimaga
« Reply #28 on: April 01, 2014, 03:52:53 pm »
I was sure that the Cemetech interview was posted just a few days ago, not a week ago. Also, that interview mentions that TI seems more open to the community than it was a few years ago. Heck, just the TI-Planet partnership with TI-France two years ago was a sign of some things to come (although TI still has a long way to go before being trusted by the community. One big step in such direction would be quitting trying to block Ndless as long as PTTCopier/Killer won't land in community download archives.)

Also, if this is real, I hope Omni wasn't bought for just $10. :P

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Re: TI buys Omnimaga
« Reply #29 on: April 01, 2014, 04:38:19 pm »
Hmmm you saw the papers.... I guess it is really then.  To be honest though I am not sure how buying omnimaga correlates to them trying to have a better relationship with the programming community.  Why would they want to buy omnimaga?  If they wanted to make developers happy they could fix some of the bugs in their os's that have been around for years, they could fix their nspire os so that it can support third party compiled programs without giving them os prevelages (linux perhaps?).  If they did that they would make a lot of developers happy.  The only reason that I can think of for ti to buy omnimaga is to control what is released by the community.  What do you guys think?  Why would ti actually want to buy omnimaga?