iPhone OS 3.0: Stocks Widget Gets Updated
Stocks, the widget-like application that’s been unchanged since the original iPhone 1.0 release is finally getting some refresh love from Apple in iPhone 3.0. While the top part, or actual stock info, remains the same, the old version’s graph along the bottom has been replaced with news results. Still want the graph? No problem, turn to landscape view and you get it bright and bigger than before. Also new, if you tap on the graph line, you get the stock price that day and if you tap at a second location as well, you get the delta (change in value) between those two points.
A small update, long in coming, but likely appreciated by many who are more than ever checking it daily, if not hourly, if not by the minute…
March 18th, 2009 at 6:49 am
great, now i will have much needed detail behind all my loses!
March 18th, 2009 at 7:00 am
I only just use this app to look at how the company I own products from are doing. I stopped because there was not much to look at. I would of never thought they’d update this app. A few ppl wished this was an optional app by apple.
March 18th, 2009 at 8:03 am
I pushed that widget all the way to my last page. Bloomberg did the trick for me. We’ll see if I’ll need yet app anymore.
March 18th, 2009 at 8:59 am
Stocks is open next to me at least 5 hours a day. Displaying company news is a very, very cool update. Also displaying the stock change on the graph is a neat, and unique idea. Kudos apple!
June 20th, 2009 at 3:19 pm
Hey, author of Stocks.app here…
In landscape mode, you can swipe left or right to switch symbols and get large charts for them. I’m glad most people have noticed the price/delta interaction features, but I haven’t seen mention of the ability to swipe between pages!
Thanks for the article!