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Am 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.

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The extensions could be written to be full featured. It's really the fault of the individual products not doing anything interesting with it.

Exactly. 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

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