2 ms·
Good riddance, this button was bad UI - you shouldn't be able to easily lose user input unless you have just as easy of a way to undo it. Though the new "hold t
by eviks 2y ago
Good riddance, this button was bad UI - you shouldn't be able to easily lose user input unless you have just as easy of a way to undo it.
Though the new "hold to delete" approach doesn't help with the latter, so the stock calculator is still bad
> This was not the time for me to readjust my calculator’s input one digit at a time. I needed to zero that thang—but I couldn’t.
Of course you could have just hold the backspace button to achieve just that. How could a journalist waste so many words describing trivial app use experience, delving into history and all that, but fail a quick web search that would lead to this revelation?
> I worry that the calculator, like many other smartphone apps, is not evolving so much as being fiddled with
If only you could download another evolving calculator app for that....