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Posted by: on Jan 3, 2008 | One Comment

Scott from refactr.com commented on my complaint about the Apple OS X weather widget being useless here in the UK and wanted to see the OS X widget showing Cardiff alongside the BBC widget showing Cardiff, and BBC showing Stroud.

Rather amusing it is too today… just how do Apple/AccuWeather whoever it is manage to get a -9C temp for Cardiff today? Ice age we don’t know about yet? Also notice how the weather conditions for Cardiff from Apple vs BBC are completely different. I know which ones I’d trust…

Come on Apple, this is embarrassing! The funny bit is that my iPhone which uses the apple widget setup for Cardiff (as previously mentioned cannot enter my actual town as a location)… and shows the weather there as Thursday 2C then 6C, 8C, 8C, 9C, 7C compared with the desktop mac’s 5C, 11C, 16C, 18C, 18C for the same period! Madness. A minimum of -11C today?

Brain death. Amazing that nobody from Apple UK has flagged this up to the US developers!

 

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  1. Jason Loftus
    January 29, 2008

    Don’t worry; it’s just as useless here in Canada! I’m looking at +7 today (based on our local weather network) vs. -5 from Mac’s Accuweather module. I think this thing might be a random number generator. I could do better sticking my hand out the window.

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