In all seriousness though, I wish Apple allowed a demo period for iPad apps so everyone could try before they buy. I am at WWDC this week, but next week I will be posting a screencast showing how the app works on the product website at GetSeasonality.com. So be sure to check back to see a video of just what the software offers.
Hi Bill,
I appreciate the feedback. I would caution against comparing Seasonality Go to closely with Seasonality 1.5 on the Mac, because the apps are very much different. Seasonality Go is more closely related to Seasonality 2, which has been in development for over a year and will be released later in 2010.
First, just to make a correction to one of your statements, Seasonality Go does have an hourly forecast. Many of the graphs show data over the upcoming 7 days, and you can pinch to zoom and view exactly what the temperature (or other weather variable) is expected to be two days from now at 4pm. Furthermore, I am working on yet another hourly forecast interface where a user could pinch into the 7 day forecast view to see more precise hourly data.
That is just one feature in Seasonality Go that isn't in Seasonality 1.5 on the Mac. Seasonality Go also has the ability to completely customize your weather screens; includes great new inserts like animated radar/satellite images; graphs for precipitation, wave height, and cloud cover; and GPS capability to follow you wherever you go. And these are just a few of the features that Seasonality Go has over Seasonality for the Mac.
Between the enhancements above and the many years of development put into writing over 45,000 lines of code to make Seasonality Go tick, I (and many other people who have purchased the app since it was released a few days ago) think the app is well worth the cost of ordering a pizza.
I will take your other comments as feature suggestions, so thank you for mentioning them. If you have any other questions about the app, please do not hesitate to ask. And definitely reevaluate Seasonality 2.0 on the Mac when it comes out later this year. It's going to be pretty cool...
Take care,
Mike
I was going for a kind of grassy outdoor green, because the app is meant to be used outdoors.
Glad you like it so far Steve! I would be curious to see how you have it setup for cycling. If you get a chance, please send a screenshot to info@gauchosoft.com. I'm also glad to hear it hasn't crashed yet. Seasonality Go runs nice and stable on my iPad here, but developers never really know how their apps will behave out in the wild.
The astronomical insert packs a lot of data into a small area, so I'm glad you asked about it. Starting from the center and moving outward, the center circle is an image of the current moon phase. Right now, it's a new moon, so it is almost all black, but give it a few days and you'll start to see something there.
The rings around the moon phase show the moonrise/moonset and sunrise/sunset times in a kind of clock circle. 12 noon is at the top of the circle, and midnight is at the bottom (the numbers mark hours around the edges). The black and white ring shows when the moon is out (white is when it is out). The blue and yellow ring shows when it is daylight (blue is daylight, yellow at night). There is also an orange marker there to show you what time is right now, so you get an idea of how far you are into the day and how much daylight you have left.
The text in the bottom corners are the actual sunrise/sunset times (on the left) and moonrise/moonset times (on the right).
As for the green color, I'm not the biggest fan of green, but green means Go! I'm not sure I'll ever quite look at the app the same again after reading your color comparison.
Mike
I'm the developer of Seasonality Go. Thanks for your interest in the product.
I am a bit biased, but I am sure the app got so high up in the rankings because it is such an awesome app...
Hopefully you will get another user chiming in here, but if you have any questions about the product, I would be more than happy to answer them...