[saagarjha]

This is basically just a repeat of how other platforms locked down code execution on their devices. Hopefully TI is incompetent enough to make jailbreaking trivial, but it opens up a cat-and-mouse game…

[kick]

TI is fairly competent overall. That said, maybe the bottom 10% get sent to the calculator division, given that it's barely moved since 1980...

[dsjimi]

Less than 5% of their revenue is calculators, and much less than 5% of their R&D or engineering budgets. It's an incredibly small part of their business.

[epanchin]

5% of revenue requiring much less than 5% of engineering time sounds like an awesome part of a business. Hardly small, either.

[goatinaboat]

It serves the purpose of exposing future engineers to the TI brand during a formative period too