They really remind me more of Android widgets, which the article also mentions. Those were a killer feature for me for Android.

Agreed, it's definitely Apple taking a step in the direction toward features I miss about Android.

Hope at one point they can behave like true widgets--really miss things like the Hue widget on my Galaxy allowing me to control preset lighting at the tap of a button, without needing to navigate through the app.

Maybe this can be done through shortcuts as well? Haven't really invested the time and effort to develop my understanding of shortcut's possibilities.

They might have the same name, might even turn into the same thing, but right now, they’re Live Tiles.

The only action taken when you tap in one is open the app.

Android widgets have much more functionality.

Windows 8 gets a lot of flak, but I always remember looking at it and thinking that something in Microsoft's DNA had changed. It seemed a risky design move for an outfit seen as risk-averse.

And I really like the 2017 iPhone SE in my pocket right now, but I loved the Nokia Lumia 920 I owned a few years ago, before a long drive in a torrential downpour destroyed it. The (live) tiles were one of the things I loved; bigger tiles worked better for my stubby fingertips.

I held out for as long as I could in hopes of a Surface Phone being released before finally buying the iPhone. The Duo is a nice bit of hardware, but it's Android, which I have never liked.

I have two major heart breaks here. WebOS dying first. Then like you and a responder, having (I think) Lucia 920 die what would’ve been a slow death but I got some water on it as well after a shower and with the end of Windows in sight and nothing else but the big two left, resigned my self to iOS.

That was a daylight robbery of all my words. I loved Lumia 920 and chose it over the iphone 5s at the time. Wanted the industrial design to succeed so much. Sad that with so much clout, MS could not get enough apps.

I loved it so much too. As well as webOS. Once in a while I’ll day dream geek of either webOS or Windows Phone having a steady 15-20% world wide market share.

Getting into far too deep say dreaming...even though it basically couldn’t have happened, webOS being consumed by Microsoft or some Microsoft and another company JV with a webOS Windows Phone hybrid with similar market share.

OR something where somehow webOS would’ve remained on tablet as the Touchpad was pretty good. And it being a much better and viable tablet competitor. This would have to involve other things to work and stuff otherwise too small of an ecosystem, but yeah.