Chris

It's a brave move for Apple. I fully expect there to be an online marketplace for widgets to download to your iPhone, not unlike the way you download tracks for your iPod. I don't know whether they plan it to be fully web-based, or client based (maybe they'll extend iTunes, and maybe they'll finally have to re-name it), but I'm sure it'll happen, and I'm sure that until recently they hoped to have a tight stranglehold on what you could buy through it (more profits for Apple).

Fair dos to them for listening to the concerns of their potential customers, although I still doubt very much that adding widgets to your iPhone will be as free an experience as, say, syncing new apps to a Palm device. We may now get third-party add-ons, but they are unlikely to be avaiable for free and they will almost certainly be delivered by an online service controlled by Apple.