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Will iPadOS include a calculator app?
by cpeterso 7y ago
Will iPadOS include a calculator app?
- McDev 7y agoiPads still don't have a calculator app? I find that baffling.
- sneakernets 7y agoThey do not. iPad could have had a graphing calculator app at this point, given the surface area, but apple has yet to do so.
- seandougall 7y agoProbably because Apple has increased their campus security in recent decades. :) https://www.pacifict.com/Story/ https://www.pacifict.com/Story/
- xienze 7y agoIt's probably because the iPhone calculator app is a four function calculator, and porting that as-is to the iPad would look absolutely comical.
- sib 7y agoThey could port a version of the view of the app that shows up when you turn the phone into landscape mode.
- mandeepj 7y agoYou meant to say Scientific calculator?
- kayamon 7y agoIf you turn it to landscape you get a scientific calculator.
- xienze 7y agoHuh. All these years I've never thought to do that, always thought it was just a four function calculator. Even the scientific calculator would look pretty silly blown up that large though.
- asark 7y agoIIRC phone-mode apps that allow it can run on an iPad in a framed mode so they don't look too weird. I get why they don't do that with the calculator because it'd be "poor UX" but "what do you mean I spent $1200 on this and there's no fucking calculator, my Apple phone and laptop both have one, you mean I gotta go sort through the app store to find something that's not gonna show me ads, then probably pay some more money on top of that $1200, to get a calculator, I mean there was one in Windows 3.1 FFS" is even worse UX.
- em500 7y agoYou can just pull down the universal search bar and type your sum there (as I just learned in this thread).
- lavezzi 7y agoThat's not correct. Use it in landscape mode and see the difference.
- bn-usd-mistake 7y agoIt has much more than 4 functions when in landscape mode, including braces and powers
- glerk 7y agoIs this really such a big issue though? There are hundreds of free calculator apps you can download through the app store.
- criddell 7y agoThe one you want is PCalc. It isn't free, but it's not expensive either.
- hyperpape 7y agoThere's also PCalc lite which is free. I bought full PCalc, but had them both on my phone for awhile until I eventually deleted the lite version. I rarely needed the full version, though I was happy to help support a developer doing good work by buying the full version.
- drusepth 7y agoI'm not sure how to ask this without it sounding anything other than genuinely curious, but it is: why would you spend money on a calculator app? What does it offer that other (free) calculator apps don't? Are free apps just so crippled that you need to pay for something full-featured and/or without something like ads? I'm not familiar with the iOS/iPadOS ecosystem.
- joemi 7y agoA paid calculator app might be better designed than a free one. Or it might not have ads, when a free one does. Or it being paid could mean that it'll be better supported with any necessary bugfixes and updates. Or the fact that it's a paid app could imply that it's better designed or better supported (without necessarily being true). Or perhaps you really care about something particular that the paid calculator app does right in your eyes, and the free ones simply don't have. There are lots of reasons one might spend money on a paid calculator app instead of a free one, and I'm sure this list doesn't even cover all the reasons.
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- callesgg 7y agoYou can enter calculations in the search field you get by dragging from the top.
- reaperducer 7y agoiPads still don't have a calculator app? I find that baffling. Also baffling: People who will spend $600 on an iPad, but not 99¢ on a calculator app. I sometimes wonder if Apple intentionally leaves these gaps in the ecosystem (Weather, Stocks, etc...), hoping that the market will bring forth solutions. It doesn't seem to work all the time.
- pluffycat 7y agoYeah I see all these iPad pros with the stock home screen apps... I’m thinking man what did you buy it for
- kkarakk 7y agobigger screen to see memes on. iPads are NOT uber popular because creators like them, they're popular coz it's a giant beautiful screen you can watch netflix/instagram on
- cbm-vic-20 7y agoBut it does have a camera app! And nobody ever looked cool taking a picture with an iPad.
- stunt 7y agoExactly the question I had! It is non sense that Apple hasn’t added calculator app to iPad after all these years. Just avoiding the confusion and disappointment of customers should be enough for them to do it but they haven’t done it after all these years.
- kevin_thibedeau 7y agoThey're still working on perfecting the one-button calculator.
- robocat 7y agoMaybe it will include a graphing calculator... Unbelievable sneaky 2004 Apple story: Engineers would come to our offices at midnight and practically slip machines under the door. One said, "Officially, this machine doesn't exist, you didn't get it from me, and I don't know you. Make sure it doesn't leave the building." https://www.pacifict.com/Story/ https://www.pacifict.com/Story/
- reaperducer 7y agoCan someone recommend a good programmer's calculator for the iPad? If I'm going to buy a calculator app, I might as well get a good one. Bonus if it can do time calculators. (I used to have a physical time calculator that could do 15 hours + 3 hours, 21 minutes = x minutes, and it was surprisingly useful=.)
- KSS42 7y agoTry PCalc. Not sure about time calculation support. If you email the developer, James Thomson, maybe he'll add it. (I requested > 4 vertical lines a while back and he added it)
- anon2625566 7y agoI stumbled on to GraphNCalc83 recently. It simulates a TI-83. Works brilliantly. Only thing it's missing is Z80 asm. :-)