I use Accuweather. I live in a rural area and Accuweather lists my town. Apple does not. Accuweather is accurate. I can't say that for Apple.
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Weather App Gains Apple News Section in iOS 16.2
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Hey, I use Podcast daily, for free EDM during workouts 😋 But, you’re right, that’s where they should add it. Plus I only open it from my AW and car and would never see the ads.
HobeSoundDarryl
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Because ads revolve around eyeballs. The most profitable place to run ads is where they will be seen by the most eyeballs.
I get your want here- even wish for it too- but modern Apple clearly puts profit above all else. Don't be surprised if we eventually fire up our Macs and need to watch and then check a box that we DID watch a few commercials before we can start using it... like DVDs where you have to watch trailers before you can start the main feature. Once a corp starts making money on ads, they quickly find many more places to insert more ads.
I do not want to see ads on hardware that I pay premium for... There's a limit for everything and it seems that Apple is slowly reaching the limit.
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Good comment! If that’s the case Apple might as well put ads on an iPhone Lock Screen. Introduce them under widgets so they will never be missed 24/7. 😡😡
HobeSoundDarryl
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They are likely to soon be EVERYWHERE... boosting "services revenue" even more so that bonuses can be earned and stock holders can be pleased with "another record quarter(s)."
The only thing that STOPS this kind of madness is the consumers as a group voting with their wallets. All the griping in the world won't do a thing if the gripers keep buying anyway. This kind of ancillary revenue will be re-considered if consumers say "enough is enough" and mean it (by ACTING on it). Else, it's just even more gravy for the profit feast.
The only thing that STOPS this kind of madness is the consumers as a group voting with their wallets. All the griping in the world won't do a thing if the gripers keep buying anyway. This kind of ancillary revenue will be re-considered if consumers say "enough is enough" and mean it (by ACTING on it). Else, it's just even more gravy for the profit feast.
Off topic and please…global warming is real but doesn’t predictably impact weather so the original poster was saying is articles trying to tie every weather event to global warming were stupid because they are anti science. Or if not I will say it. They are hysteria. These phenomena are way too complicated for a “climate change caused THIS hurricane” article because it’s unprovable nonsense. It’s about as anti science as possible and pure propaganda. It’s the equivalent of saying evil spirits cause the weather. The fact that a rate of global warming has been observed and can be attributed to human activity doesn’t mean all weather is attributed to it.
Why this came up about the weather app I have no idea…
I don’t like this change. Let weather be the the weather. Let’s hope you can turn it off.
Between this and the aggressive new push toward promoting content on Apple TV, it's pretty clear Apple is looking to make more money this way. I use Apple stuff because they generally take a light touch with this kind of pushy attention-monetizing crap. There's a good reason I use, say, Apple Maps instead of Waze or Apple TV instead of Roku or something. Happy to pay a little extra for a good user experience, but if they push it too far that value proposition starts to get a lot more murky.
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It’s distracting. Less is more.
Because I dislike 'curated' news. Doesn't matter what side of the aisle you're on, any of these news aggregators always impose their own bias on what you see.
You can turn politics off in the settings. Or set it to your desired orientation. Mine has been turned off.
I would only want this if I could disable the feature. I do not want news articles in my weather. I deleted apples news app for a reason: I don’t like it.
I use Weather Underground a lot, and since the Weather Channel bought them, there has been a "News" feed attached to the site. It's not all gloom and doom if the topic stays on weather - I'll occasionally click a video or read an article: they range from "Check out this awesome thundersnow!" to "Here's a climate crisis topic," so it feels like a reasonably full palette if Apple goes this way.
What I'm really going to miss with Dark Sky are two features I don't see in Apple Weather (or, at least, can't find) - the Dark Sky Widget, and the scheduled notifications. In the middle of this transition, everything else so far feels like just re-learning where they put stuff that I knew how to use in Dark Sky.
What I'm really going to miss with Dark Sky are two features I don't see in Apple Weather (or, at least, can't find) - the Dark Sky Widget, and the scheduled notifications. In the middle of this transition, everything else so far feels like just re-learning where they put stuff that I knew how to use in Dark Sky.
Ditto on that.
Wunderground (with ad-free subscription) is now my go-to. Bonus is that it will use a PWS.
If that day ever happens (like sponsored Amazon devices) and no ability to remove them then that will be the thing that gets me to move to android and do whatever it takes to customize it to remove ads.
