Feb 6, 2010

Wolfram Alpha Still Trying To Justify That $50 iPhone App With New Virtual Keyboards

In October, computational engine Wolfram Alpha launched a slick iPhone app. The only problem? They miscalculated what it should cost. The app is great and all, but it's simply not worth $50 when you can use the website for free. Today, they launched their first major update to the app, version 1.1, which brings with it one new feature: new keyboards. Specifically, Wolfram Alpha now has a "default" keyboard, a "math" keyboard, a "Greek" keyboard, and a "symbol" keyboard. As they describe it, "the specialized keyboards that greet you when you first open the Wolfram|Alpha App, have been painstakingly constructed to ease the burden of entering queries." Fair enough, these are definitely nice to have for advanced queries. But do they justify the $50 price yet? Nope.

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