Why still no live widgets?

[PhoneI]

Because widgets are useless. Sure, the first few weeks of owning my Android phone I placed a bunch of widgets on my home screens. Then after a few weeks, you find yourself not using 95% of them because its just as easy to open an app (and it usually provides a better experience compared to a widget). Eventually I was left with a weather widget and a clock.

 

[throAU]

Arguing about who had live widgets first....

That would probably be NextStep with dock widgets - in the early 90s.


Battery drain: anything your phone does in the background will drain battery. Cellular data being the biggest drain.



Apple may well be going this way with iOS 7 (even if 7 itself doesn't have widgets) - if you watched the keynote you'll note that they have been doing a lot of work on having the phone wake up and do data transfer to update stuff based on when it knows you're likely to use the phone.

This would make live widgets a lot less power consuming - once it works out that you sleep between say 11pm and 6am it can stop updating them after 11pm and then turn updates back on at 5am and you'll never even know.

 

[adnbek]

I like knowing that if I forget to plug my iPhone or iPad into the charger at night, I will wake up the next morning finding the battery only lost 1 to 4%.

When I had the Nexus 7, with just a few widgets on it (flipboard, youtube, weather), the drain while on standby was about 15-20% within the same amount of time.

No thanks.

 

[aimee.elizabeth]

Likewise, what does the poster's hate of widgets have to do with whether or not Apple adds them?

It doesn't have anything to do with whether Apple decides to implement widgets or not. OP stated his opinion, which is that he likes widgets, they are useful, and questions why they aren't in iOS yet. And the other poster merely presented a different opinion - that he hates widgets. Perfectly valid. However, bringing a dead man's opinion, or what you think his opinion might or might not be, into the conversation is irrelevant because Steve Jobs is dead (RIP), and he can no longer make decisions for Apple. Now, if you yourself stated your own opinion or added some new information as to why you think widgets would be useful, then that would be very helpful, instead of insinuating that we should all love and worship widgets because Steve Jobs once said he liked widgets on the Mac.

It might. History has shown time and again that if Apple doesn't have something right now, there are legions of fans who "hate" that thing.

Then when Apple gets it, suddenly it's okay. It's ridiculous and totally predictable.

Okay, if you can see into the future, then I think you should be focusing on more important issues than Apple adding widgets. I assume that because I have no idea what facts you're basing your statements on, so I just assume it's your premonitions.

Adding them to the homescreens is optional. Therefore hating them is like hating handicapped mode or optional gestures or anything else you might not want to use. Just don't use them.

No, not really. Handicapped modes and accessibility options are for people with disabilities that need these functions to be able to use the phone. Accessibility options are not there to clutter your home screen just because they can, because they actually serve a great functional service. And for people who uses accessibility options, they usually don't have a choice or else they wouldn't be able to use the phone, so suggesting that it is the same thing as a couple of widgets is nowhere near justifiable.

As for hating them in general, Apple already has added their own widgets in the form of weather etc in the notification shade, info on the lock screen, and toggles in the new control center.

Do you hate those? Because that's exactly the kind of thing that most people use widgets for.

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There you go, Apple has already added their own widgets, case closed. Stop crying.

 

[redbeard331]

Stop crying.

This invalidates everything you say..