HP Releases Classic Calculator iPhone Apps

[RedTomato]

There actually is a full OED, unless it's missing something I'm not aware of:
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=307233030&mt=8

If the link doesn't work search for Oxford Deluxe by Enfour (it's £33). The reviews on the US iTunes store are better btw...not sure what's up with that.

It's not the OED. It's the Oxford Concise Dictionary or something similar to it - clearly they are hoping people like you will buy it thinking it is the full OED. In their defence, they do say say "Oxford's largest single-volume English Dictionary" in the first paragraph of the review.

I'm tempted by it, but I'd like to save my money for the full OED.

 

[Niko03]

I don't think anyone apart from people after nostalgia will be purchasing these. Certainly no one that actually does calculations for a living. After all, most people who do the kind of things now that were done by people with these calculators decades ago will be sitting by computers with software like Matlab on, which is a zillion times easier to use and more powerful.

It's not totally nostalgia. In my briefcase I still carry my HP10B and for those Financial calculations that it excels at it is far more easy and quicker to use than any computer. I can have my answer before I could even boot my computer.

Now that I have an iPhone I hate having to carry another device and only lug around my 10B since it's in the briefcase.

Also to replace the batteries in the 10B, (3 button cells), costs at least $12.00, so the prices are not out of line. (I'm also tired of people complaining about any price above $.99, not that you are, crap you can't even get a candy bar for $.99 these days.

I admit the apps are limited in appeal and will only sell to those that use those particular products, but for them it is a sweet deal.

I doubt they expect to sell them to an audience beyond those that already own said devices. I for one am holding out for the HP 10B emulator.

 

[joeblough]

I don't think it's overpriced.

This is a highly specialist application, aimed at people who have been using these calculators for decades, and who probably earn far more than most of the people who have been complaining on this thread.

High quality professional tools are always expensive, and often don't look as shiny as the consumer version. Sometimes it's not clear why something is expensive, but the professionals who make them and use them know (or should do).

yes, i can certainly afford to buy this app at almost any price, but i have deep pockets and short arms, as they say. i can't help feeling like a sucker for shelling out so much money for something that is not truly as functional as the original (i cant feel the keys, and it is smaller than the real calculator.)

also using matlab for the kinds of things that i would use a 15C for would be like using a crane to kill a fly, to quote the flaming lips. the 15C or the iphone fits in my pocket and has a single-finger friendly interface; matlab does not.