For as long as the iPads have been around – about 14 years – Apple has never included a Calculator app out of the box. With countless third-party options available, it might have been that Apple didn’t see a need or, as Craig Federghi – Apple’s SVP of Software Engineering – put it in an interview with MKBHD, they wanted to wait until they could deliver something great. I agree that the iPad wasn’t really missing out without that mathematical
