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Cannot create desktop or “widget” environments

Apple started removing apps from the Store today that provide Dashboard-like widget environments. Shifty Jelly cites an email response from Steve Jobs:

We are not allowing apps that create their own desktops. Sorry.

Details on enforcement remain scarce, but any app that shows a screen containing various user-configured widgets, such as a clock, weather forecast, and stock ticker, seems vulnerable.

It seems as though the ban is only for the creation of multiple-widget, desktop- or Dashboard-like environments. Applications that function as individual “widgets” themselves, such as a weather app, do not appear to be affected.