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Originally Posted by MrMastodonFarm
What else have they lifted from Android that they've then done better?
I'm honestly curious to know because the first thing that springs to mind is the pull down notification bar... and Apple's is woefully behind Android in that regard.
Android is actually moving beyond widget's because of how robust and full the notification center and quick settings menu is.
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This is the point, there are more elegant solutions than widgets. They are not late to the widget game, Apple has a long history of trying them. Apple used what are essentially widgets to achieve multitasking in the original Mac System 1 in 1984. Gadgets and dashboard has been in OSX for almost a decade and even Microsoft has had them since Vista. If anything, Apple lifted the modern widget from Yahoo/Konfabulator so I am unsure as to why anyone would think that Apple has lifted widgets from Android. Google did it best but it was hardly a new or innovative idea.