![]() For whatever reason the intern left sooner than planned and no one ran with the exclusive widgets project. Mac Member's Central page.Then something happened. The program managers gave the intern the go-ahead and added the "Members Exclusive Widgets - Coming Soon!" call-out to the. Mac - a very important metric for the company since every. Mac widgets to help capitalize on the Dashboard craze and hopefully spur sales of. The intern said he could whip up some exclusive. The answer? At the time of the Tiger launch there was an Apple intern working with the. I asked the PM what the deal was with those missing widgets. On one of our breaks, I was in Café Mac and bumped into one of the. In September 2005 (when I worked for Apple) I was attending an event on Apple's campus. I thought I'd finally take the time to close this small chapter of in the book of Apple mysteries. Many wondered just what had happened to the elusive exclusive widgets, but no answers ever materialized.until now. Mac widgets failed to materialize without any explanation from Apple eventually all mention of the member-exclusive widgets was removed from the. Mac Members Central site, but the widgets had yet to appear. Months passed, however, as the message remained on the. ![]() Mac Member's Central page that stated "Members Exclusive Widgets - Coming Soon!" The promise of additional Apple-made widgets set Dashboard fanboys drooling. Mac member (now known as MobileMe) in mid-2005, you may recall a certain call-out on the. Apple did, however, plan to release some additional widgets to select Mac users before 10.4.4 shipped. ![]() Apple eventually did add more widgets with the release of Mac OS X 10.4.4, but that release didn't happen until January 2006. But the number of widgets that shipped with Tiger were limited, and many hoped Apple would quickly release additional widgets. ![]() The overlay feature supported Widgets, mini-apps that were the descendants of Mac OS 9 Desk Accessories, and that some might consider the precursors to modern iOS apps.ĭashboard widgets were (and still are) fairly useful tools, and some pretty cool eye candy to boot. One of the big new features of Tiger was Dashboard. Back in April of 2005, Apple released the much-awaited Mac OS X 10.4 " Tiger" OS.
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