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Re: Acme Weather

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Post by fastasucan »

ca6d8815 wrote: post #18
jwr wrote: post #14

Doesn't seem to be available in the EU. Yet another US-only app with US-only weather, I guess, like countless others… "Obsessing" over your icons and user interface won't make your app useful to people you explicitly do not provide your app to.

Try your local weather app. Here in Switzerland the MeteoSwiss app is absolutely wonderful, and has all these main features: - Uncertainty bands in the forecast (the bands are a better UX than more lines imo) - User-supplied reports - Many many many different maps (snow / cloud / wind / sunshine / air quality / etc) - Alerts (not notifications, but real alerts to watch out for something) Plus many more other features…

Yes! They are much better. Yr has a great API as well.

Re: Acme Weather

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Post by IgorPartola »

ajdude wrote: post #59

> Fifteen years ago, we started work on the Dark Sky weather app. I will never forgive them for selling out to Apple. Dark sky was the greatest weather app I've ever used, it had features such as considering the pressure of the atmosphere when predicting rain using crowd sourced phones, and it was the only app I've ever used that was as accurate as it was during a time when my job relied on quickly leaving the office…

Exactly my sentiment. Will they sell out to Google or Microsoft this time?

Re: Acme Weather

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Post by estearum »

ajdude wrote: post #59

> Fifteen years ago, we started work on the Dark Sky weather app. I will never forgive them for selling out to Apple. Dark sky was the greatest weather app I've ever used, it had features such as considering the pressure of the atmosphere when predicting rain using crowd sourced phones, and it was the only app I've ever used that was as accurate as it was during a time when my job relied on quickly leaving the office…

Assume they do sell out again in a year or 5.

Why exactly should you willingly choose to have worse weather predictions between here and there?

A weather app isn't something with lock-in or dependencies where using a maybe-not-permanent-solution is going to hamstring you if it disappears.

Re: Acme Weather

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Post by estearum »

greatgib wrote: post #42

We don't care about a Weather app. Very easy to do and there are millions of it. What is missing is good freely accessible data /api for weather info. Most free one are disappearing and frustratingly in most countries, the weather agency you pay with your tax will not provide it for you.

I care about a weather app and since Dark Sky disappeared there has been nothing even remotely close to it in usefulness, FOSS or otherwise.

Re: Acme Weather

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Post by bichiliad »

I have always had a ton of respect for the Dark Sky devs. I love the work that goes into designing interfaces that make sense of complex datasets intuitively, and I feel like Dark Sky was a textbook example. I’m genuinely really excited to try this out.

Re: Acme Weather

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Post by bichiliad »

imarkphillips wrote: post #21

How about reporting on yesterday's weather? Its hard to plan a walk in the forest today if I dont know how much it rained yesterday.

In the app, you can swipe backwards in time and see the reports and data for yesterday.

Re: Acme Weather

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Post by gcanyon »

gregoriol wrote: post #23
Lord_Zero wrote: post #8

Is there really that much money in making a weather app where you can quit your job at apple and do that?

Funniest thing is how they leave the company they sold their weather app to... to start another weather app.

The team/person responsible for Woot sold it to Amazon, and then launched Meh the day their non-compete ended, along with a manifesto explaining how badly they thought Amazon had handled Woot.

Re: Acme Weather

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Post by bromuro »

StopDisinfo910 wrote: post #52
jwr wrote: post #14

Doesn't seem to be available in the EU. Yet another US-only app with US-only weather, I guess, like countless others… "Obsessing" over your icons and user interface won't make your app useful to people you explicitly do not provide your app to.

Why would you pay a subscription for a weather app in the EU when national providers are already so good? I guess they wanted to focus on the US market at first because they know there is money to be made there.

EU weather apps usually have an horrible UX. This one seems pretty cool and I’d pay for it if it would be available. I now use the ugly Windy.com app and the weather ios app.
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