James Thomson

@jamesthomson Apple attempts to improve user experience by suggesting you make a calculator that doesn’t calculate.

@jamesthomson Your calculation engine is just being held wrong...

@jamesthomson are you allowed to perform a web request? If so, you could offload the calculation to a web server… ;-)

@jamesthomson terrible news! How exactly could someone enter a formula without the calculator or a keyboard? An appeal is in order.

@jamesthomson wow this really makes no sense

@jamesthomson That doesn't even make sense!!

.@jamesthomson @drbarnard That's just ridiculous! What was their exact explanation? Security or energy concerns? Cannot see a reason...

@jamesthomson it seems like every time there is a major new iOS feature, the App Store reviewers are confused about the exact policy

@jamesthomson how would one enter a formula without keyboard entry? Or do they want you to let the calculate button launch your app? Stupid.

.@jamesthomson Who do we bitch to?

@jamesthomson No doubt, other widgets need to calculate things; stocks and weather even do so. My guess: No ‘full apps’ in a widget?

@jamesthomson Can it pass the formula to the main app and display the result?

@jamesthomson how about a second widget just showing the last result? :)

@jamesthomson so you could enter a formula, call a website to do the calculation, and return, but you can't use local engine to calculate?

@jamesthomson Is the argument more about resource constraints than functional ones?