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Apple Finally Plans to Release a Calculator App for iPad Later This Year
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Alternative sentence: We can’t wait to see what you’ll do with it!
This is true now more than ever because they have a single architecture that unifies all their platforms. With everything now being built targeting the same chipset, then all that's left is curating the UI to each device's screen size and input methods, which comparatively is the easy part by far. Especially for Apple because their UI frameworks are fairly uniform as well. It's just a matter of using touch, mouse and keyboard, or a remote.
Excellent! The App Store has so many junk App’s. Especially calculator apps. Most track my movements. Amazing how much these App’s track. I have removed from my devices most third party App’s, that are not deemed absolutely essential. The more App’s Apple can provide the better.
It's for MacOS, not iOS, but here's a great calculator app:
And a very long article detailing what's wrong with these crap skeuomorphic pocket-calculator apps (many things):
Thanks, Pierre!
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probably years of development so they can bring us the best calculator there ever was. Of course the caluculator will be part of some new Apple subscription service, maybe it will be part of some iWork / iLife package that will offer a whole host of new features that we could certainly not live without.
The one I use all the time is Power One. Can use RPN mode. Lots of templates and constants for all kinds of things. I first got it for my Palm Pilot — been around awhile. My apps for Mac, iPad and iPhone get regular updates. It’s good, surprised no one mentions it.
Apple is mind-numbingly stubborn about certain things. This bothered me from day one, good to see it only took a decade and a half or so to get a feature up to snuff with the 80’s.
They’re on a roll in my opinion. Last year it was the weather app, this year it’s calculator, next year I’ll bet it’s compass!
I hope they make it a reoccurring joke every year to introduce something simple we think should have been there from the start and have Craig Federighi go "We truly live in an age of wonders!"
Go to the app store and do a search for HP 12C and you should find it. It was free.
Back in the old days of Macrumors when a juicy rumor like this dropped it could only mean one thing… G5 PowerBooks next Tuesday
I dunno about that one. Part of the reason why the Health app seems to be exclusive to iPhones is how personal they are (and also how portable they are). Remember, Health isn’t just an app for viewing that data, it’s doing things like measuring your steps throughout the day. Also, the Apple Watch communicates with the Health app on the iPhone.
Perhaps the Health app could be a remote viewer for HealthKit data, but then you’d probably have to find a way of sharing HealthKit data for multiple users.
As for the whole calculator thing, there are plenty of high quality calculators on the iPad. I’ve never once felt the need to have Apple’s calculator on the iPad (heck, I never use it on my phone*). The iPad has everything from 4 function calculators to full-blown computer algebra systems!
* There’s one huge feature that the macOS calculator has had for years that the iOS calculator doesn’t, and it’s make or break for me. That feature is Reverse Polish Notation entry. PCalc has it (on watchOS, too!), so PCalc is the way to go for me (without getting into its more sophisticated features like custom formulas).
The iPad finally got the Health app with iOS 17. That makes sense to as people want to keep their personal data on a device that doesn’t leave home that often.
I bought an actual HP 12C last year just to have a physical calculator that does RPN. Oh sure, with the types of calculations I’m more likely to do, the long discontinued HP 15C would have been a better fit for me, but I didn’t want to pay the premium on second hand 15Cs.
Well, calculator watches are a thing, so it made sense to add one to the Apple Watch (maybe more so than it does on the iPad)
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