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Why is Apple.com Promoting Widgets so Heavily? (Page 3)
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[QUOTE=umijin]I just "upgraded" to Tiger last night...Dashboard can't even approach the functionality of the shareware app Konfabulator. QUOTE]
Give it time. I felt the same way for about the first three weeks. But DB is growing on me. I uninstalled my Konfabulator.
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Dashboard is not Konfabulator....that means they are different!
I personally believe as one person suggested earlier in the thread that widgets (based on Java and HTML) will be the miniApps on handheld devices of the future. I hope Apple is using them to test apps for the iPod and future tablets or whatever. Once you have WiFi on a tablet and Intel gives them MegaWiFi or whatever its called, suddenly there is a reason to have a palm or blackberry device from Apple!!!
I believe OSX is also living several secret lives (and so is Dashboard) and we'll see them come to fruition once Apple has a range of cpu's that don't require small mountain streams to cool.
Widgets that can read mail, Word, Excel, Google Map etc will enable the perfect utility for handhelds and hopefully they can run fast, clean on a unix foundation...kind of like Linux on iPod. Either that or OSX will be efficient enough to do so.
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Widgets are awesome. I truly find them adding a new dimension to my computing - having "fun" finding raw, boring data that otherwise I would have had to visit about 10 websites to find. Weather.com, for example, sucks - it's full of ads and takes way too long to load. Now I can see the current temp, extended forecast, and map-in-motion with a click of my button. One button means very, very little effort... excessively little effort. That beats typing in a lot of URLs, or setting up some complicated tabset of websites, since widgets install and run so easily.
And all these functions can now go away as soon as I'm done with them - reducing a lot of screen clutter, something I remember Jobs talking about back when he introduced the horizontally-scrolling Mac OS X windows (and, unfortunately, the death of the spatial Finder).
Pure fun, and I've learned of a LOT of services that exist on the internet that I didn't know were there.
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Originally Posted by ambush
Congrats! Which widget is yours?
I can't even find the "font" category.
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Originally Posted by driven
Congrats! Which widget is yours?
I can't even find the "font" category.
Voice Notes...
by me, Chris O'Brien (almost a NNer) and Dan Goffin
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Oh ... FRONT page. :-)
I'll download it when I get back to my hotel. (Where my powerbook is sitting ... by itself .... all alone) :-(
Congrats again!
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oh **** ... typo!  apple.com *front* page
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Does that girl have an erection??
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Originally Posted by Kerrigan
Does that girl have an erection??
Dude, that ain't no erection. Even Beavis and Butthead would know better.
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