of your precise location and sell your whereabouts to brokers.
A spokesman for IBM, which owns the app, said it had always been clear about the use of location data collected from users and will vigorously defend its “fully appropriate” disclosures.
Feuer said the app’s operators, TWC Product and Technology LLC, sold data to at least a dozen websites for targeted ads and to hedge funds that used the information to analyze consumer beha
Don’t see a need for anything more than that.
They take data, images, etc. from public domain www,weather.gov and add commercial ads to the bottom of your phone's screen.
"It's good enough..."
- Powered by Dark Sky
I think it is their attempt to port it over to Android.
I have the paid / ad-free version. I like it. Seems accurate enough for me.
I really like the different layers that you can turn on...seeing the wind direction on the radar map is very helpful.
They have nailed our planting dates within three days from six months off for the last three years. They predicted the terrible spring of 2019 in November of 2018. They nailed our 2019 planting dates of early june down to the week which is pretty amazing.
I have an excellent radar app from a local tv station. I'm not impressed by Dark Sky and other such apps. I've found all I need is basic radar that launches quickly and is easy to read.
I can't tell you how many times at a baseball game this year somebody told me, "My app says its going to rain in 17 minutes" only to glance and the actual radar and see a completely different picture.
Storm radar.