But in case that wasn’t enough of an iPhone vibe for you, the other big update that comes with this public beta is that you can now put widgets on your desktop. Widgets! … Now, this is neat. It also strikes me as one of those iOS carryovers that doesn’t make a whole lot of sense on a computer.
Is the writer even aware that Apple first introduced widgets in 1984 as “Desk Accessories”? This isn’t an iOS thing that carried over to the Mac; it’s a Mac thing that went through a lot of iterations over the years, migrated to iOS, and then came back to the Mac in a form that’s almost exactly the same as when they were originally introduced decades ago.
Is the writer even aware that Apple first introduced widgets in 1984 as “Desk Accessories”? This isn’t an iOS thing that carried over to the Mac; it’s a Mac thing that went through a lot of iterations over the years, migrated to iOS, and then came back to the Mac in a form that’s almost exactly the same as when they were originally introduced decades ago.