Weather App Gains Apple News Section in iOS 16.2

[BidFlux]

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.

That is the utter epitome of Meta...

 

[BidFlux]

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.

The app hasn't been updated in four months...

 

[mthomas184]

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.

I used to use AccuWeather and then they decided to put their Lock Screen widgets behind a paywall so I moved on from them.

 

[mthomas184]

They actually did this before. It's tips and I can't delete it!

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Thats FAR from an ad.

 

[Stiksi]

$5 says we’re going to get climate change panic articles 🙄 (I don’t care about your politics, so don’t bother responding.)

I would like to control when and where I get my articles/news, thank you.

I do hope the news can be turned off, or forced off by deleting the News App.

If you don’t want to discuss politics, maybe don’t bring yours up like that. How about it 🤷‍♂️.

 

[tufapshakur]

This is great news for news consumers.

 

[zenwave]

Dark Sky:

‘Uh Apple: can we buy our company back?’

I’m gonna be bummed come January 1st. Really love the various hourly tweaks: Precipitation Probability vs. Precip. Rate; Wind vs. Wind Gusts, etc. The Time Machine is like having an almanac in your pocket - perfect for vacation planning.

 

[sdf]

Call me contrarian if you like, but that actually looks quite useful.

 

[entropys]

This is great news for news consumers.

All three of them.

 

[Babygotfont]

No, they monetized it.

And they are now Ya WHO?

 

[Tozovac]

Ahhh yes. Reminds me of the good all days when Instagram was a great place to go to see photos simply and efficiently. And YouTube was a great place to go see videos simply and efficiently.

this post brought to you by Apple news.

 

[mthomas184]

Thats FAR from an ad.

Hey @vetoes im curious since you downvoted, what makes a tip on how to do something an ad?

 

[vikingjunior]

Can we opt out of the news view? The picture has the Washington Post which is not news it's propaganda.

 

[SumYoungGai]

Looks like it was moved up even higher?

 

[vetoes]

what makes a tip on how to do something an ad?

I don't understand what you asked me.

Advertising is a marketing communication that employs an openly sponsored, non-personal message to promote or sell a product, service or idea. Sponsors of advertising are typically businesses wishing to promote their products or services.

It is a ad by definition. Same as unwanted information aka spam (mail & notifications) about free Apple Arcade or Music. Even after dismissing it multiple times I still got bothered by Apple. All services apps are not design anymore for consumption of your own library but rather for consumption of the new stuff. Now I'm being force-fed crap all the time. I have replaced all apple services apps with third party one to get away from it but now App Store is riddled with ads, Weather app is gonna be as well.

This is not Apple who's products I decided to buy from 10 years ago. This is some other Apple which I don"t like and I don't want to deal with. Luckily Android is much better then it use to be and there are plenty options around. I don't see myself being Apple customer for long.

 

[DocMultimedia]

Dark Sky 2 is what everyone wants. DS still what I use every day. Also big fan of Weather Strip for the great widgets (lock screen and main screens).

Will really miss Dark Sky. 😿

 

[frumpywumpy]

That is exactly what's going on. Few realize it.

highly recommend The Social Dilemma

 

[Marbles1]

Deleting the News App on phone still allows the stocks app to show you amateurish journalism about 'The Markets' e.g. from the Sun in the UK.

When will apple listen to the criticism people have for Apple News.

And why is the weather app so awful - you can't even re-arrange the tiles, or prioritise e.g. upcoming rain.

 

[Marbles1]

Just updated to iOS 16.2. I had already deleted news (and stocks). I see no news section in the weather app.

Panic over?