It was supported in iOS 5, released in 2012. It was dropped from iOS 6 in 2013. My dad still used his until 2015, when he replaced it with an Air 2. It cost $499.
I do want mouse support for iOS. If we can have keyboard hardware support, I don't see why we can't have mouse support. And it would help the iPad become a truer laptop "replacement" than it already is.
Which also begs the question of why the Pro is as expensive as it is. It is purely artificial in the sense that it can "do more" or even "do better".
Why not! Either you learn something new or you’re just reminded of the good old days
I'm not asking for the phone app blown up. I'm looking for a tablet optimized calculator app from apple.
In a retrospective on the technology of the last decade, The New York Times has shared a new interview with marketing chief Phil Schiller, covering the debut of the iPad in early 2010.
Schiller says that the iPad was conceived when Apple began looking at a future computer device that could be sold under $500. Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO at the time, said that to reach that price point, things need to be removed "aggressively."
Apple cut the clamshell design and the keyboard, prompting the iPad team to work on multitouch technology, which would go on to debut first in the 2007 iPhone.Apple set the iPad aside to focus on the iPhone, but once the second-generation iPhone was launched, Apple returned to working on the tablet form factor. Schiller says that it was "easy to imagine" what needed to be taken from the iPhone to make the iPad.The New York Times piece on the iPad also includes a tidbit from Walt Mossberg, former technology columnist for The Wall Street Journal, who worked closely with Jobs. Jobs invited Mossberg over to his home to show him the new iPad ahead of its launch.
Mossberg says he was impressed with the thinness of the iPad, and Jobs was "careful" to demonstrate how it "wasn't just a big iPhone." The most impressive part, though, was the price. Mossberg initially guessed $999 when Jobs asked what he thought the iPad might cost, half of the actual $499 price tag. Since the iPad first launched in 2010, Apple has released new versions on a yearly basis, and in 2019, the line has grown to encompass multiple pricing and design choices. There's the 11 and 12.9-inch iPad Pro models at the high-end, the middle tier 10.5-inch iPad Air, the tiny 7.9-inch iPad mini 5, and the low-cost 10.2-inch seventh-generation iPad.
The New York Times also looks at several other technological advancements and changes that took place over the course of the last decade, including the development of Siri, Apple's 2016 fight with the FBI, and the 2011 death of Steve Jobs.
Article Link: Phil Schiller Talks About the Development of the Original iPad in New Interview
There are lots of calculator apps on the App Store. Why do you need one from Apple? The one I use supports slide over and split view.
In a retrospective on the technology of the last decade, The New York Times has shared a new interview with marketing chief Phil Schiller, covering the debut of the iPad in early 2010.
Schiller says that the iPad was conceived when Apple began looking at a future computer device that could be sold under $500. Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO at the time, said that to reach that price point, things need to be removed "aggressively."
Apple cut the clamshell design and the keyboard, prompting the iPad team to work on multitouch technology, which would go on to debut first in the 2007 iPhone.Apple set the iPad aside to focus on the iPhone, but once the second-generation iPhone was launched, Apple returned to working on the tablet form factor. Schiller says that it was "easy to imagine" what needed to be taken from the iPhone to make the iPad.The New York Times piece on the iPad also includes a tidbit from Walt Mossberg, former technology columnist for The Wall Street Journal, who worked closely with Jobs. Jobs invited Mossberg over to his home to show him the new iPad ahead of its launch.
Mossberg says he was impressed with the thinness of the iPad, and Jobs was "careful" to demonstrate how it "wasn't just a big iPhone." The most impressive part, though, was the price. Mossberg initially guessed $999 when Jobs asked what he thought the iPad might cost, half of the actual $499 price tag. Since the iPad first launched in 2010, Apple has released new versions on a yearly basis, and in 2019, the line has grown to encompass multiple pricing and design choices. There's the 11 and 12.9-inch iPad Pro models at the high-end, the middle tier 10.5-inch iPad Air, the tiny 7.9-inch iPad mini 5, and the low-cost 10.2-inch seventh-generation iPad.
The New York Times also looks at several other technological advancements and changes that took place over the course of the last decade, including the development of Siri, Apple's 2016 fight with the FBI, and the 2011 death of Steve Jobs.
Article Link: Phil Schiller Talks About the Development of the Original iPad in New Interview
The iPad starts at $329, for a machine whose capabilities far exceed the original iPad. That's a little under two-thirds of $500, so how does that not qualify as "under $500" for you? Or did you want some sort of ruling that it should be impossible to configure any model of iPad to cost more than $500? That would seem pretty silly. I'm happy that they have models at a wide range of price points (and capabilities, obviously).
If you spent several hundred dollars on an iPad, I'm guessing you can afford a few more dollars for PCalc or any one of a dozen other great calculator apps that run just fine on the iPad.
I know a number of scientists who would disagree with you. They have a lot of software that takes advantage of CUDA, and would love to have Macs that had support for it.
