I've spent my entire professional career rethinking the way we work with numbers in a mobile world. It has always struck me that the advent of the touch screen and pocket sized device should mean we calculate differently.
In the hardware world there was calculators. Once upon a time these calculators cost $400 and did basic math and square root! My mom bought one of these in the seventies and I remember being fascinated by it. It cost more than some of the cars we had! To this day there are still $100+ calculators carried by kids and engineers and financial planners alike. These products are a relic from another time, requiring arcane keystrokes in a point and click world.
In the desktop world we have spreadsheets. We use spreadsheets like a hammer, creating simple databases, refine financials or what-if analysis. But the spreadsheet was designed for a big screen and a keyboard, it was meant to spread out, and just doesn't work quite right on the small screens of the smartphone and tablet.
In 1998 I took my first stab at reinventing calculation. I invented the template, a format reminiscent of a spreadsheet with its two column layout but functional like a calculator with its quick and easy what if scenario analysis. Customers have loved it to the tune of over 15 million downloads. powerOne not only did standard calculations but offered the ability to create your own. Our customers were in all walks of life: financial planners, lawyers, math students, engineers, HVAC professionals, vineyard managers, pipe fitters, accountants and real estate agents, just to name a few. We had customers across the Fortune 500 and the biggest names in mobile were our partners: Palm, Sony, Garmin, Apple, RIM, GE Security, National Association of Realtors and more.
But while powerOne was reasonably successful in its heyday we have increasingly found that the ability to create your own templates requires at least some programming inclinations and wanted to take a new stab. And with that we have invented MathPoint, a seamless way to do calculations and write notes with a language so natural that it barely differs from writing English (or French or Spanish or German, just to name a few). Hope you'll give MathPoint a try!
Sincerely,
Elia Freedman
Founder and CEO, Infinity Softworks
In the hardware world there was calculators. Once upon a time these calculators cost $400 and did basic math and square root! My mom bought one of these in the seventies and I remember being fascinated by it. It cost more than some of the cars we had! To this day there are still $100+ calculators carried by kids and engineers and financial planners alike. These products are a relic from another time, requiring arcane keystrokes in a point and click world.
In the desktop world we have spreadsheets. We use spreadsheets like a hammer, creating simple databases, refine financials or what-if analysis. But the spreadsheet was designed for a big screen and a keyboard, it was meant to spread out, and just doesn't work quite right on the small screens of the smartphone and tablet.
In 1998 I took my first stab at reinventing calculation. I invented the template, a format reminiscent of a spreadsheet with its two column layout but functional like a calculator with its quick and easy what if scenario analysis. Customers have loved it to the tune of over 15 million downloads. powerOne not only did standard calculations but offered the ability to create your own. Our customers were in all walks of life: financial planners, lawyers, math students, engineers, HVAC professionals, vineyard managers, pipe fitters, accountants and real estate agents, just to name a few. We had customers across the Fortune 500 and the biggest names in mobile were our partners: Palm, Sony, Garmin, Apple, RIM, GE Security, National Association of Realtors and more.
But while powerOne was reasonably successful in its heyday we have increasingly found that the ability to create your own templates requires at least some programming inclinations and wanted to take a new stab. And with that we have invented MathPoint, a seamless way to do calculations and write notes with a language so natural that it barely differs from writing English (or French or Spanish or German, just to name a few). Hope you'll give MathPoint a try!
Sincerely,
Elia Freedman
Founder and CEO, Infinity Softworks