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InTURRIStingIdea  ·  3685 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The End of Apps as we Know Them

I'm definitely speaking in generalities but for concrete example, Theweathernetwork app is hopelessly broken despite its rock solid brand. Many todo list widgets I've tried are useless and un-configurable. Nearly all of my widget except for gmail/gcal go stale. I'm perturbed by the lack of context awareness widgets have, mostly just serving as a hotlink to the app for basic operations. The fact that I can't make a custom tiled layout of bookmarks an annoyance (wouldn't it be nice to have a metro style layout just for news bookmarks but not be forced in to it?).

I want to like widgets though. I'm sure there are good ones out there. I just haven't found many yet.