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I don't like it, it's another exercise in taking a functional website and 'modernising' it by making it look like a mobile app (i.e. the make it look attractive to kindergarten kids school of design).

For my own use cases it's made it more annoying to get to the 7 day Canberra forecast, made the local radar harder to see, and I'm not noticing a link to the written ACT region forecast which I will want to look at in winter.

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[–] motherr@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The data source for Apple Weather is the Australian Government Bureau of Meteorology.

https://support.apple.com/en-vn/105038

Also, perhaps have another look at how to use a semicolon properly next time you want to badmouth highly-educated public servants.

[–] butters@aussie.zone 2 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

I agree with WhatAmLenny. It might use the same data source but the way information is presented is a lot more usable. Case in point - when it’s going to rain, it gives you a pretty accurate “rain is going to start in x minutes” and a graph of how heavy it will be.

It’s not just about the raw data but how people consume it.

[–] pupbiru@aussie.zone 4 points 13 hours ago

motherr might agree that apple weather is more usable too… however, “accurate” was the assertion being corrected and usable had nothing to do with it

[–] princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 12 hours ago

Best rain app, which is more accurate than apple weather with rain alerts: https://www.rainparrot.com/

They're using machine learning on the BoM radar and doing a great job with it.