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Re: What's so special with minimalweather.com?

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post #52

Nine times out of ten I want to know the weather X hours from now, not the current weather or the weather Y hours in the past.

There is an excellent widget on Android that shows the weather for the next 24 hours which does exactly this. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.veierland....

Re: What's so special with minimalweather.com?

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Is there a weather app that shows me the weather right now relative to the weather at the same time yesterday ? I don't know about you guys but I always evaluate weather in relative terms("it's cooler than yesterday morning") and yet most apps just throw the temperature at you...which could be wildly deceiving depending on wind etc.

If you use iPhone/iPad, Thermo (http://thermo.me) does exactly that for temperature. Temperature right now and temperature 24 hours ago.

Re: What's so special with minimalweather.com?

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post #56

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Yes. I already have a weather icon on my iPhone that doesn't show the actual weather until I open it. Right now it tells me it's 73 and sunny!

yeah, that annoys me. The calendar shows the current date! Why doesn't the weather icon show real weather? Or at least, not fake weather.

One possible reason is that the calendar date can be computed locally, the weather would require a data pull which needs to be scheduled, cached, battery managed, etc...

Re: What's so special with minimalweather.com?

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post #42

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If you look at the screenshot of the home screen, you'll notice that this is not an Android device and thus has no Android widgets. So, no, that's not "all this is doing".

"But my Android can do it, why can't the iPhone, another reason why Apple sucks!" :rollseyes

Well, I did mean it as an actual question. I didn't know Apple didn't have widgets (or something similar)

Re: What's so special with minimalweather.com?

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"But my Android can do it, why can't the iPhone, another reason why Apple sucks!" :rollseyes

Well, I did mean it as an actual question. I didn't know Apple didn't have widgets (or something similar)

If iOS had widgets, don't you think that people wouldn't resort to the half-working hack described in the linked article?

Re: What's so special with minimalweather.com?

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post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, I did mean it as an actual question. I didn't know Apple didn't have widgets (or something similar)

If iOS had widgets, don't you think that people wouldn't resort to the half-working hack described in the linked article?

Hence my confusion.
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