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Why are there so few open source weather apps for iOS, compared to the very many that are on Android?
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this post was submitted on 23 Aug 2023
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IOS has a preinstalled weather app and people just use that. For whatever reason. Everything is so integrated, I guess 3rd party weather apps wouldnt even display correctly. On Android, simply use a Notification and thats it.
What? There are plenty of third party weather apps on iOS. I’m not sure if iOS has those sticky Daemon notifications that Android has though, I don’t think I’ve ever seen them.
There are widgets though, both for the Home Screen and the Lock Screen, as well as little widgets for the watch if you have one of those.
Modern iOS is quite polished. Android could use a touch up with their widgets honestly.