Apple is reportedly on the verge of deploying the calculator on its iPads that has been missing since the launch of the very first model in 2010. A symbolic novelty, certainly, but one that could delight many users.
Have you often missed the calculator on iPad? Well, good news, it could soon arrive on Apple tablets and their Control Center. We learn by MacRumors that the firm plans to deploy this tool on its slates through iPadOS 18, expected in beta at the end of the next WWDC in June.
The calculator missing on iPad… an old story
Always absent from the iPad, the calculator was initially put aside by Steve Jobs, who felt that it did not use the display space offered by the tablet’s large screen well enough. It must be said that initially, the latter was only to be an ugly scaling of the application already offered on the iPhone. The watchword given by Jobs would then have been to do better… or to drop the inclusion of this calculator.
We know the rest of the story: the original iPad was marketed in 2010 without a native calculator, since then forcing users to turn to more or less convincing third-party solutions.
The macOS calculator also redesigned?
Interviewed in 2020 by YouTuber Marques Brownlee, Craig Federighi, head of software at Apple, for his part indicated that the firm had simply “not not yet leaning » on the launch of a “ very good » calculator for the iPad, nevertheless adding that “ this day could come “. It now appears that we are getting very close to a deployment. The latter would also be concomitant with an improvement of the calculator already offered on macOS.
And for good reason, this time we learn fromApple Insider that Apple would also plan to update the calculator offered on Mac to offer several new features: a resizable window, integrated support for the Notes application and a sidebar displaying a history of previous calculations carried out, among others. It is potentially this new version of the macOS calculator which would serve as the basis for the equivalent application expected on iPadOS.
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- Design finally renewed
- Wider screen at 10.9 inches
- Front camera moved to the edge
For this tenth generation, the iPad is undergoing a complete makeover, but which leaves us with a taste of unfinished business.
Apple has corrected with this version the defects of the previous iPad, by opting for a much more modern design, or by finally modifying the positioning of the front camera, a real historical black point of the range which we hope to be replicated in the other models that make it up. The performance of the tablet is difficult to ignore in the context of general public use.
However, this iPad (2022) comes with new problems, like this first Apple Pencil of the name, simply unworthy of a 600 euro tablet, or its screen which does not change one iota.
Hard to say who this iPad is for, with an inflated bill of 200 euros, while the iPad (2021) remains in the catalog for a price below 400 euros, while those with the means will be right to turn to the more premium iPad Air and its M1 processor.
The iPad (2022) is clearly not a bad tablet, it is even the best “classic” iPad ever designed by Apple, but a product which, by dint of having its ass between two chairs, does not seem to know who is his audience.
For this tenth generation, the iPad is undergoing a complete makeover, but which leaves us with a taste of unfinished business.
Apple has corrected with this version the defects of the previous iPad, by opting for a much more modern design, or by finally modifying the positioning of the front camera, a real historical black point of the range which we hope to be replicated in the other models that make it up. The performance of the tablet is difficult to ignore in the context of general public use.
However, this iPad (2022) comes with new problems, like this first Apple Pencil of the name, simply unworthy of a 600 euro tablet, or its screen which does not change one iota.
Hard to say who this iPad is for, with an inflated bill of 200 euros, while the iPad (2021) remains in the catalog for a price below 400 euros, while those with the means will be right to turn to the more premium iPad Air and its M1 processor.
The iPad (2022) is clearly not a bad tablet, it is even the best “classic” iPad ever designed by Apple, but a product which, by dint of having its ass between two chairs, does not seem to know who is his audience.
Source : MacRumors
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