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Apple will reportedly unveil a genre-defining calculator app at WWDC 2024

10 points by ajdude 3y ago

talldayo 2y ago
A lot of these features remind me of GNOME Calculator: https://apps.gnome.org/Calculator/ https://apps.gnome.org/Calculator/ > You'll even reportedly be able to resize the calculator. If you make it bigger, the round buttons get stretched and turn pill-shaped, though they go back to their original form if you make the calculator smaller again. > A new history tape that you can access with the click of a button > Finally, the new calculator will make it easier to work with numbers in different currencies by incorporating the conversion tool into its user interface. I guess time will tell what the app actually looks like, but if this is "genre defining" then I guess the genre is pretty well-defined already.
- throw310822 2y ago
  It's simply absurd that most calculator apps just mimic the functionality and UI of a 1$ handheld calculator with a one-line, 15 digits screen.
thesuperbigfrog 2y ago
A previous version of the Apple graphing calculator has quite a story: https://www.pacifict.com/Story/ https://www.pacifict.com/Story/
wrycoder 2y ago
It’s going to have to be pretty good to beat my i41CX+ app.
cozzyd 2y ago
They'll incorporate octave into the calculator app?
yen223 2y ago
Are they finally giving the iPad a calculator app?
- steve1977 2y ago
  Now let's not get cocky ok?
- steve1977 2y ago
  https://www.macrumors.com/2024/04/23/calculator-app-for-ipad-rumor/ https://www.macrumors.com/2024/04/23/calculator-app-for-ipad... ;)
steve1977 2y ago
A "genre-defining"calculator app? Really, Engadget? Also: "To start with, AppleInsider said the calculator will receive a design overhaul that swaps its number boxes with round buttons. You'll even reportedly be able to resize the calculator. If you make it bigger, the round buttons get stretched and turn pill-shaped, though they go back to their original form if you make the calculator smaller again." This is so trivial that the whole article sounds like satire. But unfortunately, April 1st is already behind us. Also, Apple, are things like this and the Journal app the best you can come up with with 160K employees and your own application frameworks?

10 points by ajdude 3y ago

A lot of these features remind me of GNOME Calculator: https://apps.gnome.org/Calculator/ https://apps.gnome.org/Calculator/ > You'll even reportedly be able to resize the calculator. If you make it bigger, the round buttons get stretched and turn pill-shaped, though they go back to their original form if you make the calculator smaller again. > A new history tape that you can access with the click of a button > Finally, the new calculator will make it easier to work with numbers in different currencies by incorporating the conversion tool into its user interface. I guess time will tell what the app actually looks like, but if this is "genre defining" then I guess the genre is pretty well-defined already.

throw310822 2y ago
It's simply absurd that most calculator apps just mimic the functionality and UI of a 1$ handheld calculator with a one-line, 15 digits screen.

thesuperbigfrog 2y ago

A previous version of the Apple graphing calculator has quite a story: https://www.pacifict.com/Story/ https://www.pacifict.com/Story/

wrycoder 2y ago

It’s going to have to be pretty good to beat my i41CX+ app.

cozzyd 2y ago

They'll incorporate octave into the calculator app?

yen223 2y ago

Are they finally giving the iPad a calculator app?

steve1977 2y ago
Now let's not get cocky ok?
steve1977 2y ago
https://www.macrumors.com/2024/04/23/calculator-app-for-ipad-rumor/ https://www.macrumors.com/2024/04/23/calculator-app-for-ipad... ;)

steve1977 2y ago

A "genre-defining"calculator app? Really, Engadget? Also: "To start with, AppleInsider said the calculator will receive a design overhaul that swaps its number boxes with round buttons. You'll even reportedly be able to resize the calculator. If you make it bigger, the round buttons get stretched and turn pill-shaped, though they go back to their original form if you make the calculator smaller again." This is so trivial that the whole article sounds like satire. But unfortunately, April 1st is already behind us. Also, Apple, are things like this and the Journal app the best you can come up with with 160K employees and your own application frameworks?