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Great to see more people attacking the underserved math app segment on the iOS. I'm the author of Scalar ( http://scalarapp.com ), another calculator replacement for iPhone / iPad. Just tested both versions of Tydlig very heavily, looks like the author ran into lots of the similar math/UI problems as I did when I was working on my app. :) Some approaches he has chosen look similar, some are unique. Great work, good l…
No RPN. Neckbeard status confirmed. Calculators are still an unsolved problem for me on glass devices to the point I still religiously carry around an HP50G even though its 6x the size of my phone. Also from some bad experiences, it appears that some "app" calculators are also seriously badly implemented. Even basic trig ops can return stupid values at extremes which makes them untrustworthy. Plus none are reasonably…
Yes. I really want a decent, pretty, RPN calc on all the platforms I use. Which rules out any HP emulator. I've got several amazing HP calcs gather dust in a drawer; I want something better than that. I've been pleasantly surprised with the built in calculator that ships with OSX; it's got a decent RPN mode, good keyboard support, and a nice stack display. Not brilliant, but better than what I've found for Windows or…
I love this app, and it's interesting to see the innovation in this familiar space. Oovium for iPad is a great example of fresh thinking. And coming soon, apparently, is the Wolfram Calculator for iPad, featuring user-programmable functions: http://mvid.wolfram.com/mobile/dannewman_teachconceptsnotkey...
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Yes. I really want a decent, pretty, RPN calc on all the platforms I use. Which rules out any HP emulator. I've got several amazing HP calcs gather dust in a drawer; I want something better than that. I've been pleasantly surprised with the built in calculator that ships with OSX; it's got a decent RPN mode, good keyboard support, and a nice stack display. Not brilliant, but better than what I've found for Windows or…
I use m48+. It's a decent replacement for my trusty old HP48.
Great to see more people attacking the underserved math app segment on the iOS. I'm the author of Scalar ( http://scalarapp.com ), another calculator replacement for iPhone / iPad. Just tested both versions of Tydlig very heavily, looks like the author ran into lots of the similar math/UI problems as I did when I was working on my app. :) Some approaches he has chosen look similar, some are unique. Great work, good l…
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Why is that hard to imagine? If the application were released for Android, I would have considered it. I've already purchased several Android calculators. There's no real basis for your claim, but I say this while I also realize I haven't provided sufficient evidence to support why Android would be a better platform. The reason I think a lot of applications like this fail on Android is that the developers first targe…
Although you may personally have considered purchasing this calculator on Android. I think he was hinting at the fact that an IOS user is more likely on average to purchase an app and pay a premium for it, hence being more lucrative for developers even with less market share. "the App Store generated 2.3x more revenues than Google Play." http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/aug/01/android-ap...
A calculator app is an outlier; it is not an average app. It's also an outlier with real utility --- so it's something people are more likely to pay for.
Great to see more people attacking the underserved math app segment on the iOS. I'm the author of Scalar ( http://scalarapp.com ), another calculator replacement for iPhone / iPad. Just tested both versions of Tydlig very heavily, looks like the author ran into lots of the similar math/UI problems as I did when I was working on my app. :) Some approaches he has chosen look similar, some are unique. Great work, good l…
I always imagined that if you were aiming for the mathematician market (huge market!!1 /s) you could have an app like that except on a tablet you'd use with a pen. Then you'd just write down calculations and OCR would figure out what you are trying to calculate and do the number crunching (where applicable), and intelligently recognise variables and a lot of different mathematical functions (I just don't like the whole process of going back and forth between my TI and my legal pad). That'd be a mathematician's (or just mine) wet dream.