When you use the app and/or create an account, you agreed to AW’s TOS, not Apple. Apple just provides the app. Also, privacy policies can and will change at any time.
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AccuWeather for iOS Sending Location Data to Monetization Company Even When Location Sharing is Off [Updated]
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When you use the app and/or create an account, you agreed to AW’s TOS, not Apple. Apple just provides the app. Also, privacy policies can and will change at any time.
So Accuweather didn't know the data that Reveal was collecting from their customers? I've lost all trust in them at this point. Their programmers are either inept or lazy if they didn't have any idea what they were signing up for when they used Reveal's SDK.
Weather Underground and either Storm or Storm Radar make a good combination. WU is better for forecasts while Storm is great for immediate hazardous weather conditions.
I wonder if Weather Channel has gotten affiliated with Weather Underground. Storm is a WU app while Storm Radar is a WC app, but they share a common icon, have an extremely similar weather interface, and are advertised together.
Weather Underground and either Storm or Storm Radar make a good combination. WU is better for forecasts while Storm is great for immediate hazardous weather conditions.
I wonder if Weather Channel has gotten affiliated with Weather Underground. Storm is a WU app while Storm Radar is a WC app, but they share a common icon, have an extremely similar weather interface, and are advertised together.
Regarding current temperature all apps are accurate. Regarding forecast they all are about as accurate. Which means they are all about as wrong about the amount and timing of precipitation. What the stock weather app doesn't have is radar. For me I the South this is most helpful for knowing if and when it is going to rain. Rain can be very localized. Of course in the summer in the late afternoon a thunderstorm can pop up at any time.
I think the problem is not that they follow you around or monitor your location. The problem is that they give that information to someone else even when you tell them not to.
Eww. I'd use data tracking Accuweather before I ever used a Weather Channel product. Dark Sky is over hyped too.
Personally, I like 1Weather for my basic weather app. For detailed radar, I use RadarScope.
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Any app that uses the forecast.io service will have that feature. Personally, I don't like it though. It is rarely accurate.
The cynic in me wonders if they simply updated the SDK to cover their tracks even more and haven't actually changed their tactics.
I think the weather prediction of Wunderground is quite accurate, but I find their app only mediocre. The app feels unfinished and contains a number of (small) bugs.
- it sometimes says "rain stops in 10 minutes" when it is not raining at all and the radar also shows nothing
- refresh of data does not always work; selecting a different weather station and going back to the original station fixes this
- sometimes it says "rain stops in {time}" (no time shown)
- the screen flickers when scrolling
- the radar is quite coarse, other apps look much better
So I am using a link to the webpage from my homescreen
- it sometimes says "rain stops in 10 minutes" when it is not raining at all and the radar also shows nothing
- refresh of data does not always work; selecting a different weather station and going back to the original station fixes this
- sometimes it says "rain stops in {time}" (no time shown)
- the screen flickers when scrolling
- the radar is quite coarse, other apps look much better
So I am using a link to the webpage from my homescreen
There is a third alternative: pay for products.
I assume someone payed Apple a fair bit of money for the device you "updated from 10.8 to 10.9" - so yeah, Apple got something from it.
Yep, its pretty easy to be accurate in Florida or California. The midwest is difficult, at least to my NWS friends.
I didn't allow them to use my location, I put it in manually and I gave no permissions beyond that.
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Exactly!
The weather in Florida changes so quick that for me, having an alert when its about to rain does more than checking if it will rain during the day, especially for my specific location.
I would of thought needing to improve services is a good idea..... But for some reason we feel more strongly about this on iOS than we do on the Mac.
"Reveal is updating its SDK and pushing out new versions of the SDK in the next 24 hours, with the iOS update going live tonight. The end result should be that zero data is transmitted back to Reveal Mobile when someone opts out of location sharing. In the meanwhile, AccuWeather had already disabled the SDK, pending that update."
"Reveal is updating its SDK and pushing out new versions of the SDK in the next 24 hours, with the iOS update going live tonight. The end result should be that zero data is transmitted back to Reveal Mobile when someone opts out of location sharing. In the meanwhile, AccuWeather had already disabled the SDK, pending that update."
Weather Channel and Weather Underground are one and same company.
Disgusting but not surprising. When an app is free, you are the product. That adage applies much more often than it doesn't.
Too late for accuweather... deleted and not getting re-installed. But maybe the lesson will be learned by other app developers. Don't be shady yourself, and know what all of your linked SDKs actually do just incase they are shady. Going to look for other apps using Reveal Media as well.
