Reuse of widgets doesn't constitute useful standardization. And content producers don't tend to want to standardize their interfaces - they want to differentiat

Reuse of widgets doesn't constitute useful standardization. And content producers don't tend to want to standardize their interfaces - they want to differentiate from their competitors, not resemble them. Will these apps publish their metadata in a way that third party apps can access and manage the content? Imagine if we had "reader apps" instead of web sites that you could scrape or grab RSS feeds from... it would be like the old AOL / CDROM days.