08.03.2010 23:35 Uhr, Quelle: 9to5Mac

Gruber: No secret Widget Mode, Jobs scrapped

In today's post, Gruber says that the little iPhone widget-type apps that shipped on the original iPhone — Stocks, Calculator, Clock, Weather and Voice Memos — won't ship on the iPad.  And that blank key on the keyboard?  It ain't gonna bring up no widget mode either. So they were scrapped by you-know-who[Jobs]. Perhaps they’ll appear on the iPad in some re-imagined form this summer with OS 4.0, but when the iPad ships next month, there won’t be versions of these apps. At least that’s the story I’ve heard from a few well-informed little birdies. (There is, alas, no secret “widget” mode for iPad in OS 3.2, either.) While this would be a bit of a bummer, it does give developers some freedom to build better apps for the iPad's screen without worrying about Apple coming in and destroying their market.  Also, there's no shortage of apps that do

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