It seems that Apple’s iPad won’t be shipping with some of the applications that people have come to expect with their touch-screen Apple devices since the launch of Apple’s iPod Touch and iPhone lines.

Without calculator, it's hard to think of a use for it

For those not in the know, Apple screened an ad for its upcoming device during the Oscars on Sunday night. Given a little time to pore over the video, a few sites have come to some interesting conclusions about the device, not least of which the fact that it seems that some of the fairly normal iPhone apps don’t appear on the iPad. Indeed, these aren’t just minor applications, but include the Stocks, Calculator, Clock and Weather apps.

It’s fairly interesting stuff for anyone looking to pick up an iPad at launch, but, as ever with Apple related news, DaringFireball’s John Grueber had some interesting commentary to add, discussing some of the possible reasons that these apps may have been disappeared from the iPad. According to Grueber,

“There were, internally to Apple (of course), versions of these apps (or at least some of them) with upscaled iPad-sized graphics, but otherwise the same UI and layout as the iPhone versions. Ends up that blowing up iPhone apps to fill the iPad screen looks and feels weird, even if you use higher resolution graphics so that nothing looks pixelated. So they were scrapped by you-know-who. Perhaps they’ll appear on the iPad in some re-imagined form this summer with OS 4.0, but when the iPad ships next month, there won’t be versions of these apps. At least that’s the story I’ve heard from a few well informed little birdies.”

Regardless of the fact that we’ll likely see some versions of these apps hit, whether through the App Store or from Apple itself in June when the next iPhone OS update hits, the fact is that these are all apps that are somewhat less impressive on a device as big as they iPad anyway. It seems likely that Stocks, Clock and Weather will be just as well served by web-based applications, while Calculator seemed always to prove itself useful…