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It's probably because the iPhone calculator app is a four function calculator, and porting that as-is to the iPad would look absolutely comical.
by xienze 7y ago
It'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