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Interesting, if a little more kitchen sink than I have come to expect from Apple. Maybe Apple will use this and tie it in to NOAA's National Weather Service in

by ansy 15y ago

Interesting, if a little more kitchen sink than I have come to expect from Apple. Maybe Apple will use this and tie it in to NOAA's National Weather Service in the USA. http://www.weather.gov/view/nationalwarnings.php http://www.weather.gov/view/nationalwarnings.php It could save a significant number of lives if a tornado, flash flood, or forest fire was tearing through nearby.

yock 15y ago
With the availability of commercial offerings, I'd be surprised if Apple integrated NWS warnings. They'd be negating sales of apps, which reduces not just a vendor's revenue, but their own as well..
- ugh 15y ago
  That doesn’t make a lot of sense. Apple (famously or infamously) has no problem adding features that formerly only third party apps had. Apple sells devices first and is middleman for developers second. Apple makes their money with devices. If Apple doesn’t integrate a feature they would like to, the reason is much more likely that they don’t want to scare off developers, not (the small) lost revenue and (the even smaller) lost profit. (Considering the massive amounts of people writing software for iOS, that’s something Apple currently doesn’t have to worry about all that much.) Apple will always want to make their devices more attractive for consumers. I don’t think that developers have priority for them (at least compared to consumers).
- ansy 15y ago
  Apple doesn't care one whiff about any single app's livelihood. If integrating something improves the user experience, then it gets integrated. iOS 5 is already taking aim at Instapaper (Reading List), the entire ToDo category (Reminders), non-SMS messaging apps (iMessage), Zinio (Newsstand), half the camera apps out there, and a swath of Twitter apps [1]. You can almost bet if there is a swell of applications with similar features that Apple will wipe them all out in the next major version of iOS. What's one more weather app? Apple is already taking aim at them by adding hourly forecasts to the built in weather app for iOS 5. [1] http://www.apple.com/ios/ios5/features.html http://www.apple.com/ios/ios5/features.html

by ansy 15y ago

yock 15y ago

With the availability of commercial offerings, I'd be surprised if Apple integrated NWS warnings. They'd be negating sales of apps, which reduces not just a vendor's revenue, but their own as well..

ugh 15y ago
That doesn’t make a lot of sense. Apple (famously or infamously) has no problem adding features that formerly only third party apps had. Apple sells devices first and is middleman for developers second. Apple makes their money with devices. If Apple doesn’t integrate a feature they would like to, the reason is much more likely that they don’t want to scare off developers, not (the small) lost revenue and (the even smaller) lost profit. (Considering the massive amounts of people writing software for iOS, that’s something Apple currently doesn’t have to worry about all that much.) Apple will always want to make their devices more attractive for consumers. I don’t think that developers have priority for them (at least compared to consumers).
ansy 15y ago
Apple doesn't care one whiff about any single app's livelihood. If integrating something improves the user experience, then it gets integrated. iOS 5 is already taking aim at Instapaper (Reading List), the entire ToDo category (Reminders), non-SMS messaging apps (iMessage), Zinio (Newsstand), half the camera apps out there, and a swath of Twitter apps [1]. You can almost bet if there is a swell of applications with similar features that Apple will wipe them all out in the next major version of iOS. What's one more weather app? Apple is already taking aim at them by adding hourly forecasts to the built in weather app for iOS 5. [1] http://www.apple.com/ios/ios5/features.html http://www.apple.com/ios/ios5/features.html