[HN Gopher] Requiem for an Interface
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       Requiem for an Interface
        
       Author : p44v9n
       Score  : 19 points
       Date   : 2023-09-21 08:12 UTC (14 hours ago)
        
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       | schneems wrote:
       | I remember being upset about this and quite a few people saying
       | some variation of "just use weather.app...it's the same data.
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       | But it's always been about the interface and the way you display
       | that data. I mean heck, the weather channel uses publicly
       | available government weather data, slaps some graphics on it and
       | then called it a whole channel.
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       | I still miss dark sky.
        
       | fiddlerwoaroof wrote:
       | Really one of the all-time great examples of UI design
        
       | wlesieutre wrote:
       | iOS 17's Weather app at least brings back the forecast's "Chance
       | of Precipitation" graph which was conspicuously absent in iOS 16.
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       | Talk about missing the point with their redesigned Weather app
       | that was billed a successor for Dark Sky.
        
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