A Calculator’s Most Important Button Has Been Removed
I worry that the calculator we've known and loved is not long for this Earth. This month, when I upgraded my iPhone to the latest operating system, iOS 18, it came with a refreshed Calculator app.
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... The update offered some improvements! I appreciated the vertical orientation of its scientific mode, because turning your phone sideways is so 2009; the continuing display of each operation (e.g., 217 4 + 8) on the screen until I asked for the result; the unit-conversion mode, because I will never know what a centimeter is. But there also was a startling omission: The calculator's "C" button -- the one that clears input -- was gone. The "C" itself had been cleared. ...
But there also was a startling omission: The calculator's "C" button -- the one that clears input -- was gone. The "C" itself had been cleared. ...
#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-10-22 12:14 AM | Reply
Yeah, Apple does this.
Back in the day, when Apple iTunes first appeared on the scene, I pondered converting my home PC infrastructure from Windows to Apple.
I purchased an iMac, and started to move everything over. I also purchased an AppleTV box to show my music on the TV.
I soon found out the error of my ways.
For starters, the iTunes software in both the iMac and the AppleTV boxen could not play the FLAC files I had in my music reservoir.
And, it went downhill from there.
So, now, I am back to Windows (for better or worse) for the main PC client here, though I am typing this comment on Linux Mint (worth a look, imho. Far better than what Apple offered to me.)
Long story short, Apple's Walled Garden (i.e., the restrictions that Apple seems to impost upon its customers) were not something I wanted to support.
YMMV.
#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-10-22 12:23 AM | Reply
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