iOS widgets are a complement to existing apps, and most apps that stand to benefit from them do already have widgets. There are even dedicated custom Widget ap

iOS widgets are a complement to existing apps, and most apps that stand to benefit from them do already have widgets. There are even dedicated custom Widget apps like _David Smith’s WidgetSmith which does fairly well for itself once people realized they could have a more unique Home Screen with custom widgets. iOS Widgets just don’t do a whole lot right now. The current widget API basically skewed away from Dashboard-style widgets and made them more like the Windows 8 Tiles but better: fancy app icons that can display dynamically changing information with some deep-linking capabilities; with the non-dynamic fallback being to just use the App’s existing icon.