Yeah, great. Now what about the millions of other innovative apps that get rejected before ever seeing the store? Can I get a Wi-Fi scanner for iOS yet?
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Apple Reverses Course on iOS 8 Notification Center Calculators
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if steve jobs was still CEO, apple would be down to low single digits market share and the iphone 6 would a tiny 3" phone only meant for retarts who can't figure anything out
Why the hell would you want someone else telling you how to use your phone? I paid a huge amount of money for this thing, if I want to put 100 widgets in my notification center that's nobody's business but my own!
Kudos to Apple for coming to their senses on this.
Sorry, but I must be missing something here. Why would I want to spend 10 bucks to swipe down for a calculator, as opposed to swiping up for free?
Exactly! People think Apple control stuff like this to be tyrannical. They are trying to maintain a consistent user experience. Are all their choices cut and dry? No. Do they always make the right decision? No, but if you want to judge them, at least try to understand the motivation for their choices. It's careful control over things like this that differentiates Apple. If you want a platform where anything goes, Apple isn't the right choice. Ironically, this is what gives Apple it's brand loyalty while simultaneously being the thing that Apple haters hate the most about them.
- Swipe up for free
- Click the calculator icon to load the calculator app
- Do your calculation
- Double click home button to get to multitasking view and reopen safari to get back to the page you were on
- Safari reloads tab because 1GB RAM is not enough, and you lose the form you were trying to enter the information on to
OR
Swipe down, enter calculation directly on the widget, swipe up and get back to where you were in the first place
For a student or salesperson it is perfect for quick calculations. Two fingers to the right on the track pad and you're in.
Says your anecdotal experience. I get notifications from iTunes, Twitter, Facebook, Calendar, Mail, Safari (Twitch, MacRumours), iCloud Photos (I like seeing when new pictures are shared), Transmission... etc.
Not sure if it helps you at all, but the AirPort Utility iOS app has Wi-Fi scanning built into it.
If you go to the main Settings app and go to the AirPort Utility app settings there you can enable Wi-Fi scanning and it works pretty well.
Careful there.... there's a difference between being open-sourced and being flexible and easy to integrate with. Apple aims for the latter... closed-source, but plenty of safe "connections" to the inner workings. This is important for security, as proven by the Android world... open-sourced code with "always-on" devices is an extremely challenging thing to do right.
There are people who have a use for much more complex mathematical equations or just want a better or more complete user interface that they can customize and tweak. I purchased this product and it was worth every penny. It is a wonderful product. It is foolish to discount a product's validity just because you don't personally need it.
Good to see. Though I never understand the people saying "hopefully it'll become more open sourced" - the very heart of iOS is that it's not open sourced, unlike its opposite number Android. It's a tightly controlled OS which ensures (most of the time) a simple, clean familiar experience we all know and love. I like it how it is, yes there are things I'd like to see, but becoming more and more open sourced is not one of them, nor is it in iOSs blood. Dare I say it, if you a more open sourced OS, why would you use iOS when there's Android?
So they don't have 14 days to approve an app with 4 screens?
The problem wasn't the "Waiting for review" phase. It's the "In Review" phase that takes so long for nothing.
Lastly, I am passed the iOS 8 specific madness, where apps took 14 days to approve. Lately, a lot of sources indicate 7-9 days in total.
We posted our Android app on two days ago and it's online as we speak. Apple ARE control freaks.
Other than the display size how does this not apply to Apple users? Go ahead, mention the phrase "command line" and see how many people lock up and need to be rebooted.
Not to mention there is no calculator from Apple let alone in the control center for iPads.
It's a calculator! Unless it can do some calculation to tell me tomorrow night's lottery numbers it is no better (to me) than the default calculator in the control center.