No iPad calculator
It’s hard to believe, but there is no calculator app on iPads. Check for yourself. iPads have been around for 13 years. You can download one in the app store, but Apple has never shipped an iPad with a calculator built-in like it does for iPhones.
Legend has it that when the first iPad was about to launch, Steve Jobs didn’t like the design of the calculator app, which was just a scaled up version of the iPhone calculator. There wasn’t time to make a new app, so the iPad just didn’t get one. For some reason, it still hasn’t. The iPad didn’t even get a weather app until 2022.
Youtuber Marques Brownlee asked Apple’s vice president of software engineering, Craig Federighi about it. “There’s some things that we have not done because we would want to do something really distinctly great in that space,” Federighi said. “It’s obviously easy to create a calculator app, but creating one that feels like, ‘Wow! this is this is this is the greatest iPad calculator app…’ We want to do it when we can do it really really well, and I think we honestly just haven’t gotten around to doing it.”
There may be another explanation. Apple has a reputation in the tech press for bending over backwards to avoid admitting mistakes. You might be able to chalk the whole thing up to hubris.
