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I can sell you one out of my desk drawer for half that :-) The interesting thing is that they do what they do well, "boot" instantly, and can be carried in the

I can sell you one out of my desk drawer for half that :-) The interesting thing is that they do what they do well, "boot" instantly, and can be carried in the pocket. When a company I was with was being acquired pretty much every one of the auditors had one of these in their pocket. They knew exactly what sequence of presses would answer the question they needed answer.

tgv 4y ago
That's pretty important. When I needed a mortage last year, I wrote a small mortgage app (in Swift). While it's useful if you always need to enter the same set of numbers, a more flexible app would come with all kinds of UX problems: do I make it fast or do I guide the user? Do I try to cram all time based finances in the same interface, or are there different pages? Etc. And all of a sudden, it has become too complex for lay users, and too unwieldy for frequent users. A simple app suits the former, a calculator that only needs a few presses the latter. If everyone has the same device, even better.