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What is even worse is the ipad has no default calculator (or weather app).

I was so surprised it did not exist I ported the iphone app as a pwa using Typescript and wrote about it here.

https://mejuto.co/the-ipad-did-not-have-a-calculator-so-i-po...

iPad finally [0] has a default weather app in iPadOS 16, but still no calculator.

[0]: https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/6/23156804/apple-weather-app...

What’s even harder to understand is why there isn’t a good 3rd party iPad calculator app. This doesn’t feel like a difficult problem to solve, and yet here we without an intuitive, good looking calculator for the iPad.

just wanted to link Craig's response to why there isnt a calculator for iPad: https://youtu.be/Q2aaCDNjWEg?t=900

Yea yea yea. That’s why I said 3rd party. I know they long ago decided not to make an app and have given up on the idea. But you’d think someone would step up in their place and make something useful.

Last time I link to my project, I promise. I think it really applies in this case. https://getcalculator.app/

It is a pwa, so you can add it to the home screen.

I saw that but I don’t like it because it uses periods instead of commas.

I see, you mean for the thousands separator. It was not localized, you are right.

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