This is a head-scratcher. I have two ideas about why Apple may have done this:
1. They are planning on releasing their own calculator notification center widget.
2. This is the hypothesis put forward in the article, that Apple conceives of notification widgets as essentially read-only sources of at-a-glance information.
Either way, it's clearly a case of the right hand not knowing what the left...etc.
Or a case of early validation for speedy AppShop deployment (which in 99.999% of the cases doesn't pose any further question), followed by human control and judgement (which takes a little more time).
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[ 3.2 ms ] story [ 17.8 ms ] thread1. They are planning on releasing their own calculator notification center widget. 2. This is the hypothesis put forward in the article, that Apple conceives of notification widgets as essentially read-only sources of at-a-glance information.
Either way, it's clearly a case of the right hand not knowing what the left...etc.
I would rather see that as a good thing.