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Re:Dark Sky, short term local weather prediction app. by kevinpfromnm on Wednesday March 28, 2012 @02:58PM (#3767761)
Quite interesting.

I'd be concerned about how this is going to hamper the device. It's processing locally, though it suggested it's through the gpu. It could be a significant drain on battery life. Also, to get accurate weather maps is going to take a lot of data.

Seems like a better approach would be to put the calculation in the cloud or if that's impractical use a sort of crowd cloud by having the calculations be sent back up after they're made on the phone.

Re:Dark Sky, short term local weather prediction app. by thegrossman on Wednesday March 28, 2012 @04:58PM (#3768299)
Just the animations are being rendered on the device (to save bandwidth). The forecast data is being computed on the server.