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I don't get it. My Android has a widget on my homepage that shows me the current weather for my location, updated live. Is that all this is doing?

• angrydev 14y ago
  No, in fact this particular implementation will only update the icon AFTER you load the page (from what I can gather anyway). Not sure why that is valuable. It may also be pertinent to note that there are no widgets for iOS, so something as basic as live weather becomes a bit of a chore.
• nivla 14y ago
  Yes but less. You see iOS does not have desktop widgets like android/windows, so this is a creative way to show the updates within the app icon.
  • pooriaazimi 14y ago
    There's a live weather widget in the notification center for iPhone. Shame it's only for weather and stocks, and developers can't use it. We can of course hope it would change in iOS 7... Along with a better inter-app communication system.
• cmelbye 14y ago
  If you look at the screenshot of the home screen, you'll notice that this is not an Android device and thus has no Android widgets. So, no, that's not "all this is doing".
  • Killswitch 14y ago
    "But my Android can do it, why can't the iPhone, another reason why Apple sucks!" :rollseyes
    • laserDinosaur 14y ago
      Well, I did mean it as an actual question. I didn't know Apple didn't have widgets (or something similar)
      • cmelbye 14y ago
        If iOS had widgets, don't you think that people wouldn't resort to the half-working hack described in the linked article?
        • laserDinosaur 14y ago
          Hence my confusion.