Interestingly, my computer's System Profiler application shows a successful connection with the calculator, so it's not the USB port's fault. When I turn the calculator off and then on while plugged in, or remove and re-insert the USB cable, I receive this alert from TI Device Explorer:Ī device was detected, but we could not communicate with it for some reason. The problem: Upon turning on my calculator and plugging it into my computer using the packaged Mini-B USB to USB cable with TI Connect X and Device Explorer running, nothing happens. I'll reply back if anything of value surfaces. I wrote TI support using George's letter as a template. Writing Mac software, even under Cocoa and OS X, (especially under the latest Xcode omg) isn't easy by any stretch, but I can assure you it is fractions of pennies on the dollar compared to the cost of losing customers that fork out the kind of money MB owners wielding Ti caculators are capable of. At this rate it isn't so much a matter of 'if' as it is 'when'. If they think as HP once did, that they're the only game in town, they'll surely repeat the same fate. I really enjoyed my Ti89, but I will handily use it for target practice long before my Mac is pried from my cold dead hands. Ti will make for a nice bedfellow with HP if this keeps up. In a dusty box and stories of scientific lore from years gone by and a Wikipedia page crying for more citations. But eventually, telling customers to take a flying leap and that you know their needs better than they do (even without canned stencils for email responses) will eventually get you exactly where they ended up. They thought they were the only game in town, and honestly for a brief period what they had to offer indeed held true to that ideology. The name of the site alone should tell you something. Hint: is the only place you'll really find any information on them form the company itself. Look how stellar their programmable calculator market is today. Not very many years later HP started treating both their customers and more importantly their potentials like dog feces. I remember when the HP41CV was the shiznit back in the day. That Ti has chosen to completely ignore that growing foundation of loyalty is both staggering and troubling. You will find almost no customer base in the world more loyal than MBPro or MBAir. Like many people their bang for the buck is their Windows market, which honestly is a crying shame. If history has taught us anything (and I've been an enterprise security software engineer for 16 years now, so it has taught me quite a lot) Ti has zero plans to update this software for Mac. I sought out help from TI for this, and it was concluded that the problem was probably with my MacBook Pro because I am still able to connect to my PC and my friends' Macs, under the same conditions.ĭoes anyone know of a reason for why my TI-84 Plus and/or TI-89 Titanium cannot connect to my new MacBook Pro using the TI Connect X software? I have uninstalled and reinstalled, used different cables, downloaded the software again, and connected to different usb ports, all to no avail. This has happened with both my calculators every time I try. It reads: "Alert - A device was connected, but we could not communicate with it for some reason." Only after turning off and then back on my calculator do I get this message: Upon installing TI-Connect and connecting my calculator(s) to the computer, I receive no indication that my calculator is seen by the application. I have connected both calculators to my PC with TI Connect multiple times without a problem to sync programs and rearrange files, but I want to use TI Connect X for Mac to use the new version with a program editor. I use a TI-84 Plus (recently upgraded to version 2.55) and a TI-89 Titanium on a regular basis for school, and I create my own programs for my benefit.
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