Dear Steve,
My brother is coming to visit this weekend and I’m trying to use Apple’s weather widgets to see if we should plan some outdoor stuff. The problem is that your weather widgets aren’t in sync.
Your iPhone weather widget, which gets data from Yahoo, says it will be sunny with a high of 90 on Saturday in Richmond, VA. That would be a hot but fairly nice day. But your Mac OS X weather widget, which looks very similar to the iPhone widget but gets data from AccuWeather.com, says it will be thunderstorms with a high of 95 on Saturday. That wouldn’t be nice at all.
Even right this second, the widgets differ on the current Richmond temperature by seven degrees. Ugh.
The fact that Yahoo and AccuWeather disagree isn’t your fault, but presenting conflicting data from two sources in a similar interface is very much your fault.
What I really need is for both widgets to default to one, unified, Steve-sanctioned weather forecast. And, if you can let me choose my own weather source for my widgets that would be even better.
Can you make that happen for me? Maybe with iPhone 2.0? I know third-party developers could do it with their own widgets. But, this seems like such an obvious and inelegant issue. Apple, which prides itself on elegance, really should fix this itself. Thanks!
Marc :-)
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