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Yahoo's Missed Opportunity with iOS 8 Weather Hints at Uncertain Future in Stocks App
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How is that possible? You do know yahoo gets their data from the weather channel...lol
For current conditions, yes, they come from ASOS sites. However, forecasts are proprietary to The Weather Channel.
Good point. Actually, going back, Yahoo! used Google's search engine until 2004, after which they tried combining all the search engine technologies they had bought (Inktomi, Overture, AltaVista etc.) Only to dump all of that and go with Bing in 2009.
So yeah, Yahoo! owns precious little search engine technology of any value. I suppose their market cap is due to the sheer amount of web traffic they get. To their portal (my.yahoo), search, sports, app data fetches etc. Apple evidently has much better things to do with all that cash.
I use Yahoo Mail which is still one of the largest email providers on the net. I think they still have around 300 million users.
Exactly the logic from those I've seen arguing that its well past time to dump them. Reduce the bloat.
Same logic that has me wanting an App Store for the Apple TV (especially if it's going to stay in the 8-16 GB range) and not liking that I have to download an app to get those third party keyboards on my iDevices
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I don't want to see any one search engine on anything Apple. I would rather see a system in which searches are run on several engines and then aggregated, and presented to us. with a sorting system that uses date of last modification, title/metadata, etc rather than allowing folks to pay for high ranks. perhaps even allowing for keyword refinement after a search, rating items found and maybe even a "google alerts" type system.
So they may say, but using what models? The outputs of the NAM, MRF, AVN, GFS, etc. All of which are published in real time.
Also, a lot more current conditions are collected than the ASOS sites.
There's quite a bit of praise for Dark Sky in many places online.
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Put them in a folder and move that folder off to a separate page if you want to. Simple. The vast majority of people don't have any issues with doing something simple like that and forgetting about it all.
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People keep on saying that year after year for years now, and clearly it's been happening, right? Yeah...
Yahoo is irrelevant.
Weather, stocks, search... it all comes from other places, making them an unnecessary middleman.
The only things they offer are easily created (and easily abandoned) email addresses for the crap you don't care about, and Flickr.
Weather, stocks, search... it all comes from other places, making them an unnecessary middleman.
The only things they offer are easily created (and easily abandoned) email addresses for the crap you don't care about, and Flickr.
For some things that the case, for finance/stocks (along with sports, Flickr that you mentioned, and various other properties) it's pretty far from it.
Yahoo! Answers, and I heard they have some good sports stuff and fantasy football. That's about it.
I really hope they ditch Yahoo! for the Stocks app. I want to be able to open it and glance at the stock prices, but it often takes a while to load or doesn't load at all because Yahoo!'s servers are that bad. This stuff should have been 100% fail-proof a long time ago.
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Nah, Mailinator and Gmail are better for that. Mailinator lets you type the username you want, and it gives it to you instantly with no signup (also no security since anyone can access it). Gmail is also better because if you register the email address "junkmail@gmail.com", then "junk.mail@gmail.com", "jun.k.mail@gmail.com", etc. also work. So you can sign up for stuff more than once.
If you've never heard of Mailinator, you should give it a try because it's really convenient.
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They've been hacked multiple times, and their servers sometimes fail to provide IMAP service for some reason. I wouldn't use it.
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Yeah, people should check it. It would make everyone less afraid of money, debt, and investing if they knew how any of it worked.
Weatherbug is my favorite weather app on the iPhone, and I have several, including the native one, the Yahoo one, (which looks very similar to the native iPhone weather app, but more comprehensive in info), Weather Underground is good, and possibly the most comprehensive.. Weather Channel's own is also good.
My weather for several cities on My Yahoo has a TWC icon. It also gives me the weather for Sunnyvale, although I have never added that location.
On my Android phone, I have Weatherbug, TWC and AccuWeather. TWC also provides traffic conditions on its maps.
On my Android phone, I have Weatherbug, TWC and AccuWeather. TWC also provides traffic conditions on its maps.
Yahoo! is known for their finance portal and coverage even more than other well known parts like sports. Not sure why you have issues with Stock app data, but on various iOS devices that I've been using it over the years the data always loads and loads quickly.
An interesting presentation, but my first foray into their web site forecasts wasn't too impressive in terms of results. For my location they report the current temperature at least 5° too high and the sky conditions as overcast. The sky is clear. They are also forecasting today's local high at 78° while the NWS point forecast is a more plausible 85. So we'll see about that.
This weather forecasting thing is difficult. It's about a lot more than pretty pictures.
The worst is Yahoo finance which links to all these stupid click bait articles (with headlines in the form of a question) from sites like motley fool, seeking alpha, wall street cheat sheet, etc.
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They are unresponsive to problems we are having with our family group, and always posting weather / temperatures about places nowhere near and not one of my selected cities makes me feel they are doomed.
They are unresponsive to problems we are having with our family group, and always posting weather / temperatures about places nowhere near and not one of my selected cities makes me feel they are doomed.
isolated personal anecdotal experiences mean just about nothing as far as it comes to performance and success of a company that deals with millions upon millions upon millions of customers constantly.
I just asked Siri for the current temperature on my iPad and it provided the current temperature as well as the hourly forecast temperature for the next 12 hours.
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Hopefully, they'll add liveweather radar to the app. The Weather Channel's past and future radar in their app sucks.
I wish I could say the same. I've been through an original iPhone (found in e-waste bin
), iPod touch 4th gen, iPhone 4, and iPhone 5. On all of them, I've had issues with my stock quotes not loading sometimes or taking about 30 seconds to load. In any case, it should be 100% reliable for everybody. However, it doesn't matter as much now because iOS 7 has the background refresh feature, so if service goes down, I should have pretty recent quotes anyway.I know that Yahoo! has a lot of quality online finance tools, but Nasdaq and TD Ameritrade's free services are a lot better. I just want my quotes to be from Nasdaq so they'll be reliable.
