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Re:Start with a Website, Not a Mobile App by enraged_camel on Friday January 04, 2019 @01:17PM (#18826265)
For me:

Personal Capital (finance), WhatsApp, Slack, Overcast (podcasts), Kindle, Dark Sky (hyper accurate weather app), Google Authenticator, Lyft, RENPHO (my smart scale’s app), 1Password

Everything else is very situational and totally optional.

Re:Start with a Website, Not a Mobile App by interfixus on Friday January 04, 2019 @02:18PM (#18826845)
Fascinating - not one single overlap. Mine:

Firefox, K-9, Signal, KeepassAndroid, Syncthing, FBReader, Fast Notepad, OsmAnd+, Revolut, OpenVPN.

Re:Start with a Website, Not a Mobile App by 0x38B on Friday January 04, 2019 @05:52PM (#18828519)
BlackPlayer Ex (Music), MyBible, EasyWay (public transport), Multitran, WireGuard, Moon+ Reader, Smart AudioBook Player, CF.lumen, YouTube Vanced, Flud (torrent client), and YouTube Downloader (from XDA) are my essentials.

I like trying new apps, and will often go through a lot of apps to find ones I like.

Re:Start with a Website, Not a Mobile App by Gigablah on Saturday January 05, 2019 @12:42AM (#18830137)
I have Authy instead of Google Authenticator — not that there’s anything wrong with the latter, but if you lose your phone it’s much more of a hassle.
Re:Start with a Website, Not a Mobile App by hiccuphippo on Friday January 04, 2019 @04:01PM (#18827567)
Mine: Firefox, WhatsApp (for family) & Telegram (friends and groups), andOTP instead of Google authenticator, New Pipe instead of YouTube, FBReader, Orgzly (notes), Phonograph for music and trying to move to LessPass for passwords.
Re:Start with a Website, Not a Mobile App by StavrosK on Friday January 04, 2019 @07:14PM (#18828996)
andOTP is great, NewPipe is not as great (get YouTube Vanced, https://vanced.app/ instead). Why do you prefer FBReader over Moon+?
Re:Start with a Website, Not a Mobile App by ph0rque on Friday January 04, 2019 @05:19PM (#18828254)
Interesting... googled Dark Sky, tried out their web app, will probably download the mobile app. The original article's thesis seems to be on to something :)
Re:Start with a Website, Not a Mobile App by ed312 on Friday January 04, 2019 @02:03PM (#18826698)
off topic of the thread: do you have a strong opinion of Dark Sky vs Weather Underground?
Re:Start with a Website, Not a Mobile App by jermaustin1 on Friday January 04, 2019 @02:14PM (#18826813)
I have found Dark Sky is great in populated areas (NYC, Denver, Houston), but Wunderground seems to do better outside of the metros (Lower Hudson River Valley, Catskills, Adirondacks -- you can probably tell where I live and work, now).
Re:Start with a Website, Not a Mobile App by drewmol on Friday January 04, 2019 @02:42PM (#18827040)
I've found the best data comes from the nearest/best doppler radar(s). Often this is one of the local tv broadcast stations. Obviously this radar data is licensed to various weather service providers but are usually owned by a broadcast television network operator.
Re:Start with a Website, Not a Mobile App by SomeHacker44 on Friday January 04, 2019 @02:32PM (#18826969)
Dark Sky : T-Mobile :: Wunderground : Verizon

Got it.

Re:Start with a Website, Not a Mobile App by bearcobra on Friday January 04, 2019 @02:58PM (#18827141)
I really like Weather Undergrounds local stations. Being able to see that a location at the top of a hill in town is a couple degrees cooler or windier than one down the street has proven to be really useful when decided to bring a jacket or not. That said Dark Sky's UI is top notch and the data seems to be pretty solid as well.
Re:Start with a Website, Not a Mobile App by danmaz74 on Saturday January 05, 2019 @03:37AM (#18830604)
I love those... Except when those stations start working badly and it's impossible to disable them (a month going where I live in London)
Re:Start with a Website, Not a Mobile App by Oreb on Friday January 04, 2019 @03:11PM (#18827224)
Where I live (Oslo, Norway), the predictions of Dark Sky and Weather Underground are both less accurate than just making an uneducated guess based on how the weather has been developing the last couple of days. I guess they work better in North America
Re:Start with a Website, Not a Mobile App by JohnFen on Friday January 04, 2019 @06:46PM (#18828853)
In my part of North America, you can do better than any weather forecasts that I've ever seen by simply predicting that tomorrow's weather will be pretty much the same as today's. And all forecasts beyond three days are essentially worthless.
Re:Start with a Website, Not a Mobile App by sjcsjc on Friday January 04, 2019 @04:05PM (#18827605)
I was recommended yr.no many years ago and find it very accurate. I'm UK-based.
Re:Start with a Website, Not a Mobile App by amatecha on Friday January 04, 2019 @05:01PM (#18828084)
dang, went to find Dark Sky on App Store and it appears to not be available in Canada? sadness :(