>“It is actually a funny story,” writes user Tangoshukudai. “When they were prototyping the iPad, they ported the iOS calc over, but it was just stretched to fit the screen. It was there all the way from the beginning of the prototypes and was just assumed by everyone at apple that it was going to be shipped that way.
>A month before the release, Steve Jobs calls Scott Forstall into his office and says to him, “where is the new design for the calculator? This looks awful.” He said, “what new design?” This is what we are shipping with. Steve said, “no, pull it we can’t ship that.” Scott fought for it to stay in, but he knew he had to get their UI team involved to design a new look for the calculator but there was no way they could do it in that short time frame, so they just scrapped it.
>It has been such low priority since then that no one cares to work on it since there is more important things to work on.”
Jobs died 6 years ago yet Apple still didn't bother to bring the default calculator app to iPad.
now hes gone and they go full SJW and run the company into the ground again
Christopher Evans
>Jobs reducing bloat while improving aesthetics at the same time Everything Stallman ever hoped to be.
Anthony Perez
>iPad has no calculator what?
WHAT?
Please be a troll.
>we're living in a timeline where the most-sold tablet computer has no calculator, but washing-machines are hacked using directory-traversal-exploits What a time to be alive.
>Your iPhone (and even Android) has a stock calculator app because they are always on your person. If people (we) started carrying iPads with them to the bathroom and on dates then perhaps Apple should consider a calculator app. Until then it's like finding a phonebook outside your front door... discussions.apple.com/message/31329007#message31329007
>tfw I have no face
Jaxon Torres
>iToddlers
Nicholas Perry
Only Linux is allowed to remove basic functions
Christian Smith
> there was no way they could do it in that short time frame A month to redraw the buttons and they couldn't do that? What a load of BS.
Wyatt Moore
>ipad has no calculator wha-
how in the fuck i don't even...
Jason Rodriguez
The default calculator on iOS sucks balls anyway, can't even do multipart expressions.
Ethan Brooks
tfw its real
Logan Stewart
when will it catch up to windows 1.0?
Jaxon Price
This. Your average user could shit this app out in like a day with no prior knowledge of iOS development. What the fuck
Jacob Allen
>Your average user could shit this app out in like a day with no prior knowledge of iOS development. But the billion worth company with an army of engineers and programmers who know the iOS inside out for some reason can't. Capitalism is broken.
Zachary Wilson
Lol, this is a joke right?
Daniel Miller
Huh, I did wonder why there wasn't a calculator built in.
>>iPad has no calculator >what? Well, it's not like it's impossible to use a calculator on one, it's just that it doesn't come with one by default.
Isaac Nguyen
>Lol, this is a troll right? Fixed. I suppose the weather app suffered a similar fate? Go back and try again.
Aaron Myers
>defending bloatware
This is why androidfags will suffer for all eternity with your shitty locked-down OS that lets carrier shove whatever crap they want on your phone and you have to root it in order to uninstall bloat.
Chase Harris
>on ipad >mum asks me what something divided by something is >hang on ill get the calculator >where the fuck is it >give up looking for it >pull out my ipod touch and use that calculator instead that was 6 years ago lmao and they STILL dont have one
Andrew Baker
Not with Steve's autism, he would keep rejecting the design until they had serious delays, and eventually settle with a rejected design which no one would tell him he had already rejected It happened more than once at NeXT and in his older Apple days, but back then he was retarded enough to delay production for whatever shit he decided to nitpick in that day
Jackson White
Man that sounds like the software company where I work >management refuses to commit to a UI before development begins >let's just make it work first guise ok? >it works now >spend the next 6 months redoing everything from scratch because the UI revealed something about the business logic that didn't make sense >we're now 18 months behind schedule
Kayden Bennett
The real joke is that you use apple
William Sanders
>can't do division in your head
and apple is the joke? I mean it is but you're fucking retarded
Jacob Morris
you can ask siri. Or just download the fucking calculator
Owen Howard
They'd have a point if all other cars had calculators but they don't.
Christian King
>Capitalism is broken. >It's broken cause muh calculator app I wish commies would fuck off and die, don't you have fairtrade phones to buy instead?
Nathaniel Miller
"Yes, white people suck. This is why we should start punching nazis" - modern day journalism
Robert Cooper
>Communism >"Fair" Trade Do you have brain damage?
Thomas Brown
use google
Aaron Torres
Because the almost-slave tier manufactoring process for iphones are that much better than fair trade phones, right?
Brandon Young
No unless the phones are manfauctued by Democratic co-ops from the factory to your hand it's not "fair" trade by the standards of a communist. Do you understand what socialism is? Sounds like your just talking about generic liberals that believe in "social responsibility". Socialist don't believe in ethical consumption buddy.
Jordan Ortiz
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Elijah Cooper
What the fuck does your persecution complex have to do with a fucking calculator app? Go back to Sup Forums, pepe
Kevin Richardson
trolled
Jonathan Sanders
>tfw try to troll /leftypol/ but they just ban you for a month if you don't toe the line at least it's easy to get them in-fighting
Mason Gutierrez
>they detect your shitty trolling attempt >i-i-it's just that they have hivemind and allow no dissent!
Dylan Rogers
How is sucking that corporate cock working out for you financially, buddy?
Jayden Moore
Yeah, it was shocking to me that the iPad didn't have a calc. I was on the toilet once and needed to use a calculator when I discovered the stupidity that it actually didn't have one pre-installed. I still haven't downloaded and installed any of the fishy third-party calcs on the App Store. Whenever I need it I just go on google.com and use it to calculate whatever.
Austin Nelson
That's why you just get them to fight each other. Commies are notorious for this.
How's communism working out for you? Or are you sipping capitalist tea while Venezuela starves?
Caleb White
I don't know how's Capitalism working for you in Chile , Mexico, Puerto Rico, most of Africa and large parts of South East Asia?
Brandon Gutierrez
Not him, but: Communism gave my country great education. Since we stopped being communist, we pushed our mathematics back at least 3 years - shit that our communist parents learned at start of high school, we learn in college.
And keep in mind that Poland still has relatively good education, despite the years of capitalistic degeneration. Better at literacy and math than US.
Carson Sanchez
Yeah the Holodomor did great things for children's growth and maturity
Grayson Moore
Don't you mean >mfw I have no face
Grayson Young
Is that why so many tried to leave that shithole?
Anthony Sullivan
Holodomor was in Ukraine, you dumb fuck. I know that the next thing you are going to say is that the education that you've received (if any) probably did wonders in the other fields, but humanities and critical thinking. But it doesn't add up, since you're just another retard who mumbles 'pull up by bootstraps' mantra over and over again at the fundamental problems and inherent flaws in the current economic system.
Eli Powell
*snore* Go back to accomplishing literally nothing like usual. Oh wait, there you are.
Brayden Robinson
It's because we replaced our mathematics with religion, chemistry with history, and STEM with management. Oh and a working system with capitalism.
The choice is exploitation or emigration. And if you can't (or don't want to) exploit, you'll be the one exploited.
Thank god for capitalism!
Easton Lopez
Go back to blowing CEOs, voting Republican and praying to the free-market gods to bestow a fucking pre-installed calculator app to your iPad.
Gabriel Butler
Holy fucking shit, no wonder Apple makes so much money when sheep eat up a sales pitch like:
"You'll already have our 700 dollar phone so why should your 400 dollar tablet come with something on the phone? Also, make sure to spend another 200 dollars on cables and accessories! Also you HAVE to use our app store."
Sheep: OKAY
What's not to love?
Jason Torres
stay mad lmao
Jose Miller
>not downloading a free HP-48 emulator >not downloading the free WP-34s app stay cucked
Christopher Bailey
droid48 is the only worth calc app
Henry Williams
I just have little use for a calculator "app"
Real calculators have real buttons, real screens, the battery lasts for months, and they are always handy when you need them.
Also there's no bullshit to distract you, no notifications, none of that crap you don't need when crunching numbers.
Smartphone apps are a shit-tier substitute for a real calculator.
Brayden Sanders
>his smartphone calculator doesn't even support serial communications lel
Alexander Murphy
Have you even seen GNU code? They're not interested in avoiding bloat, at all.
Adam Lewis
>Go back to accomplishing literally nothing like usual. Are you implying that you are accomplishing anything meaningful with your life?
Jeremiah Collins
>HP
my nigga
Justin Perez
>tfw you fell for the RPN meme
Joshua Rodriguez
Too bad now we can use stuff like Matlab My ol 48g felt much better
Evan Carter
Honestly I find myself using my 50g a lot more because it just feels better to me for longer equations. I still use my phone sometimes and algebraic input (can be faster for shorter shit) but I really only fuck with MATLAB/EES/Mathematica when required
whoever says "oh you don't need a calculator after a certain point lol" is an idiot. And even if you don't, who cares? It's still nice to use