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I think it's less about pie charts and more that weather apps can be very eyecandy-heavy. This sort of marketing works well for both consumers and board members
by throwaway27448 23d ago
I think it's less about pie charts and more that weather apps can be very eyecandy-heavy. This sort of marketing works well for both consumers and board members.
- zahlman 23d ago1GB is space for almost half an hour of 5000kbps ("YouTube Premium") video. Just what kind of eye candy are we talking about here?
- monocasa 23d agoIt's also only 45 frames uncompressed at 4k. It's remarkably easy to hit that if your base assets are mostly raster rather than vector for a dynamic scene. Obviously, they should try harder, and this is an explanation rather than an excuse, but the graphics assets are mostly why.
- zahlman 22d agoWhy would you need that kind of resolution for a weather app? What are you even going to depict with all those pixels?
- monocasa 22d agoBecause people are looking at it on 4k screens.
- zahlman 22d agoI mean, I usually check the weather by putting "weather" into a search engine. And this will show me little SVG icons that take up a tiny fraction of my low-resolution screen and probably involve like less than a kilobyte of path description. And I think this looks perfectly fine and I can hardly even fathom why anyone would want it to be fancier than that. I think that even animating them would make the display actively worse.
- throwaway27448 23d agoI have deep faith you can find the imagination with in you to understand