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Re:Los Angeles Accuses Weather Channel App of Covertly Minin... by flukus on Friday January 04, 2019 @02:15AM (#18822503)
I've found apps that use these global API's are inferior to local apps connecting directly to local API's, the data is a lot more current, more accurate and includes a lot of features like radar images. Not sure if it's an issue with some countries missing a lot of data that mine (Aus) offer or it's missing for some other reason.

Phone OEM's always have to include a crappy global one for some reason.

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Re:Los Angeles Accuses Weather Channel App of Covertly Minin... by baroffoos on Sunday January 06, 2019 @06:47PM (#18841544)
Well that tends to be the case that generic interfaces to multiple APIs only provide the features that everyone provides.
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