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Shitty iOS 8 Widgets
- georgemcbay 12y agoI'm actually surprised LinkedIn's widget doesn't say "X people viewed your profile in the past Y days" while constantly modifying Y so X can change without actually changing... since that's one of the many shitty attention whore things they do with email alerts.
- furyofantares 12y agoWouldn't X change daily if Y is static?
- guptaneil 12y agoYou don't want X to be 0, so Y needs to change as well to keep people clicking.
- georgemcbay 12y agoIf people are clicking your profile at least daily, yes. If you're not particularly "engaged" on Linkedin (I have an account but virtually never use it or update it) then not so much. It is the unengaged ones LinkedIn is targetting with this (because the engaged ones don't need to be tricked into going to the site). As guptaneil said you don't want X to be 0. Also, by playing with Y even when X wouldn't be 0 you can trick people into thinking there is activity that doesn't exist: Spam Email Day1: "3 people clicked your profile in the past 5 days!" Spam Email Day2: "10 people clicked your profile in the past 15 days!" Meanwhile there's been no change, 10 people have clicked your profile in the past 15 days and 3 people have clicked in the past 6 days, but the 10 number looks bigger thus maybe you'll click to see why the sudden uptick.
- Zaheer 12y agoIt does and it shows the profile pictures normally. Not sure why its not showing up for him.
- cdransf 12y agoDropbox's widget is also fairly unnecessary — it just gives you a list of recently modified files.
- hcarvalhoalves 12y agoI can see how that may be useful, if I'm using shared folders.
- cdransf 12y agoFair enough, but it seems limited even then given the visual space allotted to widgets (though I suppose that hardly Dropbox's fault).
- aosmith 12y agoExcuse me for being rude but what makes these worse than the iOS 7 notifications? If you actually take 2 factor seriously the notification screen is worthless.
- mortenjorck 12y agoThey aren't notifications. They're persistent panels in the "today" view, and none of them offer much justification for taking up that space.
- dmishe 12y agoWell since they're not enabled by default I don't think there is anything to worry really
- webwielder 12y agoI've never seen an Android widget that I felt justified its existence, and I'm thinking the same will be true for iOS.
- coolnow 12y agoToday Calendar widget?
- JamesSwift 12y agoESPN Scorecenter, weather, BBC News, and the music player are four I can think of from my own experience.
- andoriyu 12y agoIs there shittytumblrblogs.tumblr.com yet?
- oybektoirov 12y agoSo it's no different than Android?! I was about to buy iPhone 6 :(
- coreymgilmore 12y agoAm I the only one who doesn't really consider iOS's widgets to be actual widgets? At least on Android I can "do" something with the widget. Example: GMail or email widget....I can read through my inbox; calendar...I can see my next events. The iOS widgets just create a shortcut for me to need to open the full app.
- jarjoura 12y agoThe extensions could be written to be full featured. It's really the fault of the individual products not doing anything interesting with it.
- reticulated 12y agoExactly. A much better example would be to look at what James Thompson is doing with PCalc; the notification widget is a companion calculator to the main app. http://www.pcalc.com/iphone/index.html http://www.pcalc.com/iphone/index.html
- shawkinaw 12y agoTo be fair to Duolingo, if you enable daily goals then your remaining points for the day are shown. Not spectacularly useful perhaps, but not comically useless either.
- drewcon 12y agoEvernote's is actually pretty good. A simple accelerator for adding things to Evernote.
- hutattedonmyarm 12y agoThe TwoDots one is pretty useless too. Displays only which level you're currently on