Online Scientific Calculator |Wolfram Alpha | $50 iPhone App

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The computational knowledge engine called Wolfram Alpha has released an iPhone application that costs a whopping $50, well $49.99 to be precise. Wolfram Alpha bills itself as an answer engine. answer questions from complex math, to any sort of factual query.

The iPhone application is an extension of Worlfram Alpha with an emphasis that the application is a essentially a hardware calculator - such calculators are typically much more expensive than  the $50 price tag.

Nonetheless, with the most iphone applications costing $10 or less and many costing 99cents the $50 iPhone application is certainly distinctive in the marketplace and likely the application is targeted at a very niche market

The application sits in the App Stores top 100

Indeed, it will be interesting watch how this app performs because if it takes off we could see more and more high end, higher price applications crop up on the iPhone App store.