They had said before they were wanting to do something proper with it, not just port the basic iPhone one. Guess it wasn’t just high on their priorities until now.
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Apple Unveils Calculator App for iPad With Math Notes, Apple Pencil Support
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Look, Craig addressed all these criticisms, and all future criticisms, last year:
"Truly, we live in an age of wonders."
I am glad to see Apple finally, finally tackling some of the basics.
"Truly, we live in an age of wonders."
I am glad to see Apple finally, finally tackling some of the basics.
Its basically Soulver... with a pen. Ironically, Soulver is available on the iPad, and iPhone, and Mac, and you can use a keyboard which is quicker, and it can do stuff with AI as well these days. It's a pretty awesome app.Did you actually watch the segment for Math Notes?
Only needed the power of A12 (edit) A10 to run a freaking calculator. They should've put in at least a basic scientific calculator on iPads years ago
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Yeah I understand where the rule is coming from, and it’s often a good rule, but many times a one one/phrase/image post does positively contribute to a thread even if it just provides a good laugh. It should be judged on a case by case basis, it shouldn’t be a strict rule—hopefully this is the case.Let's see how long your post stays up. I posted the same thing elsewhere and after my post got deleted I got this warning:
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Apparently, these are a no-no as they're just "A post that only contains only an image"
If you read my comment more carefully, I was referring to the standard scientific calculator, not Math Notes. That should’ve been implemented years ago. The latter though, understandable needing the power of later chips
This was the most interesting item to me of the updates. Two thoughts:
1) Hey Apple: let me touch my newfangled iPen (with the rotational sensors) to any constant, exponent, or variable, and twist up or down to see what that does on the graph. That would be uber-cool, and a fantastic learning tool to me in my JrHigh/HS/college days (...just makin' small wooden boxes and homemade tortillas now). Would be a great feature for the kids/our future!
2) As from above posts, I too was worried of no mention of RPN on this new calculator; the Big Key needs to say "Enter", not "="....
1) Hey Apple: let me touch my newfangled iPen (with the rotational sensors) to any constant, exponent, or variable, and twist up or down to see what that does on the graph. That would be uber-cool, and a fantastic learning tool to me in my JrHigh/HS/college days (...just makin' small wooden boxes and homemade tortillas now). Would be a great feature for the kids/our future!
2) As from above posts, I too was worried of no mention of RPN on this new calculator; the Big Key needs to say "Enter", not "="....
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I mean, if the reason it took this long to come to the iPad was because they were waiting to upgrade it with all of these amazing new features, then I don’t mind! CalcBot has served me well for many years and I welcome this crazy advanced Calculator on the iPad!
While the app is basic, the "math notes" feature seems resource hungry. (live update of graphs when changing variables seem nifty and might require some processing, not sure about it though)
Yeah. This was impressive. Looks like it could be resource-hungry too. Too bad it has come after I had completed all my studiesDid you actually watch the segment for Math Notes?
I think what happened was they took so long to get one out that it became a whole thing, as the kids say. Then, they COULDN'T just come out with a normal, expected iPad calculator app and have everybody say "we waited X years for THIS?" So they had to wait until they could do something not embarrassing.
I think it's actually the coolest part of the show and probably the one thing that will work as demoed (as opposed to the new AI Siri stuff, which I suspect are very carefully curated and will not run as smoothly in real world use).
Wow, that took a long time. I think they should have just started with a basic calculator years ago.
Wait what?
Now THIS is a version of Apple to be loved and celebrated. A much better version of itself. One where it leads the pack for its users, rather than trails. Very impressive. Now if they could be this visionary with the native keyboard, I might write them a Shakespearean sonnet. A promising start would be an optional number row, AI-powered voice dictation, and predictive text that shows 100% of the time - even on Google search.
Makes sense. Freedom units were born from witchcraft.