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Wolfram Alpha now available on iPhone for $50

by on19 October 2009

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Marketed as a graphing calculator replacement


British
software developer Stephen Wolfram received uncounted interest over the past few months for the continued success of his innovative computational knowledge engine known as Wolfram Alpha. For beginners, the web service has been broadly accepted by a large pool of education and research populations around the globe for its ability to predict, assume and compute real-world natural language input into specific and intelligible answer representations.

Unfortunately, the engineers behind the decision to release the engine to the iPhone crowd may have opened up an interesting pricing debate. The app was just released to the iTunes Store yesterday at $49.99, which may or may not have reasonable value to various consumers depending on several interpersonal opinions. Some analysts have suggested that the company is targeting its app at students and professionals with a marketing vibe determined on serving as a graphing calculator replacement.

"Drawing on 20+ years of development, 50,000+ built-in algorithms, and 10+ trillion pieces of continually updated and curated data, the Wolfram Alpha app is the ultimate replacement for almost any kind of calculator or reference book - and much more", says Wolfram Alpha.

It is important to note that the application is only usable when connected to the internet. The engine requires a two-way interaction with its core knowledge databases to supply all of its geographical statistics, nutritional data, financial data, calculus expression data, and any other forms of useful data of which consumers are willing to seek inquiry. This might come off as a deal breaker to some students, considering that many schools have spotty EDGE (2.5G) service while some only manage Wi-Fi signals that are either restricted or protected with security encryption standards. Even so, the app would not be plausible as a graphing calculator replacement for a large majority of iPod Touch owners.

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Last modified on 19 October 2009
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