Messages, Camera, Stocks, Weather, Voice Memos, Clock, Calculator, Compass and Phone they all have one thing in common: they are not integrated in the iPad OS. The question is: Why? Fury.com thinks they have an answer to that question: the apps will return as widgets.
According to Fury, Apple is planning to develop a Dashboard like feature for the iPad. If you have a Mac you’re probably familiar with the Dashboard. Dashboard contains all kinds of widgets. Each widget has its own task. Each widget usually has one task and gives a clear overview of its purpose, like displaying the temperatures, or showing how late it is.
There’s a table which shows the differences between the iPhone 3GS, the iPod touch and the iPad when it comes to the standard apps offered by Apple. The 3GS has all the apps and has the most to offer. The touch lacks apps like Messages, Phone and Camera, but that’s acceptable since it’s not a phone and it has no camera on board. The iPad lacks a lot of the standard apps the iPhone and iPod touch do have. The only application it does have and the others don’t, is the iBooks application.
It would be really nice if Apple adds the missing apps as widgets and enables users to download the huge amount of widgets already available for Mac users. The iPad sure allows for such an addition because of the bigger screen. No matter what Apple has in store for us, I do hope the missing apps will be available in the final version when it’s launched 52 days from now.
What do you think?
Source: Fury.com
