Why Dashboard Won my Heart, Again

Dashboard Widgets seem to have lost their appeal before tablets became mainstream, and here we're several years into the tablet revolution. Yet, Dashboard still got a number of little updates in OS X Mountain Lion, enough that it still feels like an essential part of the Apple experience.

But it's not the iOS style widgets that have kept me using it, or the 3rd party widgets, since most of them are terribly dated now. Instead, it's Safari's Web Clip widgets, which I use mainly to have an easy way to get updated data from Wolfram|Alpha.

It sure would be interesting if Apple did more with Dashboard+iOS in the future, but there's still enough in Dashboard to make it interesting in 2013.

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