Outback Steakhouse Owner Cuts Chief Customer Officer Role December 22, 2021.Companies Call in Better Pay and Perks for Contact Center Workers December 27, 2021.“On this day” and “picture of the day” display relevant information based on the date, while the third option shows the most-read article on Wikipedia. The app has three widgets available for iPhones and iPads. is part of the nonprofit organization’s goal of catching people’s attention without them deliberately searching for something, said Josh Minor, principal product manager at Wikimedia. The Wikipedia widget from Wikimedia Foundation Inc. “When there’s all these app icons, you have to tap on them to figure out what you’re going into, but this is just bringing you closer to what you care about.” Widgets can reduce friction, said Claus Enevoldsen, vice president of global growth and business development at Flipboard. It also has a widget for Android with fewer options. Flipboard Inc., a news aggregator, has a widget for iOS with four options: a daily edition the company’s favorite stories the top 10 news stories of the day and a personalized section based on a user’s interests. Widgets have pushed companies to think about which information an app can convey without requiring the user to open it, developers say. The app has had more than 60 million downloads since its release last September, with about 30 million downloads in its first week, Mr. The release of iOS 14 tapped into a desire for customization, said David Smith, an independent iOS developer who created Widgetsmith, an app that lets people create custom widgets that display information such as reminders of the sunrise and sunset time. “What we see today, in terms of widgets on smartphones, is just an affirmation that smartphones are the new desktop computer,” said Imran Chaudhri, co-founder, president and chairman of Humane Inc., a technology company specializing in consumer hardware and software. As the size increases, more information appears, such as the forecast for that day and later in the week. Users can pick from a small, medium or large widget format. The weather widget on Apple Inc.’s iOS devices show users current weather conditions and a forecast. Flipboard has four widget options, such as showing users the top 10 stories of the day.

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