The iPad tablets are delivered by the Apple company without the Calculator application that is offered to users of iPhone terminals and many people have asked what exactly motivated those from Cupertino to avoid offering such a useful application for users all over the world.
Well, the story is old and dates back to 2009, because just one month before the iPad tablet was presented by Steve Jobs, the former CEO of Apple made the decision that the Calculator application that was offered in prototypes would not be delivered in the final version of the tablet software.
Apple's engineers did not create a special Calculator application for the iPad, but only modified the one for the iPhone to expand the interface so that it covers the entire screen of the tablet, but Steve Jobs was far from satisfied with the final result.
Calling Scott Forstall, then senior vice president of the division that develops iOS, to find out what the final version of the Calculator application for the iPad will be, Steve Jobs learned that the application with a precarious design is what his company's engineers thought and requested that it not be offered to users.
It is actually a funny story. When they were prototyping the iPad, they ported the iOS calc over, but it was just stretched to fit the screen. It was there all the way from the beginning of the prototypes and was just assumed by everyone at apple that it was going to be shipped that way. A month before the release, Steve Jobs calls Scott Forstall into his office and says to him, "where is the new design for the computer?" This looks awful" He said, "what new design?" This is what we are shipping with. Steve said, "no, pull it we can't ship that".
Although in the first version of iOS for the iPad there was no dedicated Calculator application, the Apple company did not make it a priority to develop a special version for its tablet, other projects taking priority, and thus the iPad was left without a native calculator application so far.
Scott fought for it to stay in, but he knew he had to get their UI team involved to design a new look for the computer but there was no way they could do it in that short time frame, so they just scrapped it. It has been such a low priority since then that no one cares to work on it since there are more important things to work on. (Source: I worked at Apple).
