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I am a regular runner. The accurate micro-forecasts on Dark Sky were a huge help for me to plan ahead so I wouldn't get caught in the rain. Apple Weather mostly

I am a regular runner. The accurate micro-forecasts on Dark Sky were a huge help for me to plan ahead so I wouldn't get caught in the rain. Apple Weather mostly fails at this. Additionally, I really dislike the Apple Weather dataviz for the day's trends. This time of year, the my local weather can wildly change from early morning to late afternoon, and I want to plan what to wear. I could glance quickly at Dark Sky and see the trend almost instantly. Apple Weather requires this awkward tap and drag gesture to see actual temperature values through the day. Apple weather puts all sorts of weather data at the same level, despite the utility being wildly different. I need to know the temperature trend for the day, or rain chance. Wind speed isn't very useful to me day to day, yet they are at the same "level" of UI access. It doesn't feel very driven by user needs, but perhaps there are a lot more sailors using the app than I realize.

ezfe 2y ago
How does it fail? Are you qualitatively saying it's just...worse? I understand UI criticism but I've seen lots of people instantly saying it's worse when it's working just as well as Dark Sky ever did for me.
- agos 2y ago
  Weather apps are data visualization apps. Just changing the UI can be a major decrease in functionality
crazygringo 2y ago
> Apple Weather requires this awkward tap and drag gesture to see actual temperature values through the day. You mean scrolling horizontally to see the values? It's not an awkward tap and drag, it's just scrolling. But if you don't like scrolling (which I understand), then just tap without dragging, and it'll show you a full-screen graph with a curve representing the temperature throughout the whole day. It's fantastic. The interface doesn't make it clear that it's tappable, I'll certainly admit. But I hope that helps you. The graph view only got added maybe a couple of years ago, and I think a lot of people maybe still don't know about it.

ezfe 2y ago

How does it fail? Are you qualitatively saying it's just...worse? I understand UI criticism but I've seen lots of people instantly saying it's worse when it's working just as well as Dark Sky ever did for me.

agos 2y ago
Weather apps are data visualization apps. Just changing the UI can be a major decrease in functionality

crazygringo 2y ago

> Apple Weather requires this awkward tap and drag gesture to see actual temperature values through the day. You mean scrolling horizontally to see the values? It's not an awkward tap and drag, it's just scrolling. But if you don't like scrolling (which I understand), then just tap without dragging, and it'll show you a full-screen graph with a curve representing the temperature throughout the whole day. It's fantastic. The interface doesn't make it clear that it's tappable, I'll certainly admit. But I hope that helps you. The graph view only got added maybe a couple of years ago, and I think a lot of people maybe still don't know about it.