Re:“A calculator app? Anyone could make that”
by sneak on Sunday February 16, 2025 @11:41AM
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I am seriously curious when it became not a violation of the principle of least surprise that a calculator app uses the network to communicate information from my device (which definitionally belongs to me) to the developer.
Where I am standing, that never happened, but that would require that a simply staggering number of people be classified as unreasonable.
Re:“A calculator app? Anyone could make that”
by jacobp100 on Sunday February 16, 2025 @02:24PM
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The only network requests are for currency rates, and Sentry crash logs. I don’t collect analytics other than these crash logs
Re:“A calculator app? Anyone could make that”
by sneak on Sunday February 16, 2025 @04:00PM
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It is the Sentry surveillance to which I refer. The crashes on my computer do not belong to you.
Re:“A calculator app? Anyone could make that”
by jacobp100 on Sunday February 16, 2025 @04:47PM
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You can't please everyone. Do note these are only sent when something goes wrong in the app. To give you an indication of how little I collect, for the last 30 days, I can see 3,700 app sessions (only includes people who opted into Apple's analytics), and 14 reports of exceptions within the app. That's fewer than 0.4% of users.
I've been working on it for what will be a decade later this year. It tries to take all the features you had on these physical calculators, but present them in a modern way. It works on macOS, iOS, and iPad OS
With regards to the article, I wasn't quite as sophisticated as that. I do track rationals, exponents, square roots, and multiples of pi; then fall back to decimal when needed. This part is open source, though!
Marketing page - https://jacobdoescode.com/technicalc
AppStore Link - https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/technicalc-calculator/id150496...
Open source components - https://github.com/jacobp100/technicalc-core