Comments on: Your Window to the World: Outside for iPhone

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Wed, 30 Dec 2009 16:46:36 +0000

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By: Gorilla

Gorilla — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 15:21:12 +0000

Not at all pleasing. Only local weather. The cartoony look gets rather boring in a short time.

By: Neil Anderson

Neil Anderson — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 03:14:10 +0000

I’ll give it a try. Not sure about the subscription idea though.

By: Ken

Ken — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 23:17:59 +0000

Cool. Looking forward to it.

By: Willi Wu

Willi Wu — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 16:53:10 +0000

Hey Ken,

1. Shake it baby! Shake the device to manually refresh the weather data! We failed to mention this anywhere in the app except in an alert popup if weather fetching fails.
2. The reason why you can’t easily switch between cities is the notifications, because that might confuse the user which city that actually alert was for.
3. Yeah, we do understand this one. It was a design decision we made to not confuse the user.
4. We are considering implementing this so you can for example tap the calendar to quickly switch between days.

We will address these issues in the coming updates.

By: Ken

Ken — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 14:38:51 +0000

I’ve been waiting app to be available and I downloaded it immediately after getting the notification that it was in the App Store. I’ve been using the Weather Channel app but never liked it much.

I wasn’t disappointed. Outside is a very beautiful app. The animations are nice, it’s laid out intuitively. However, I’ve already found some annoyances that I’m sure will be updated in their next release:

1. When I switch locations manually, it doesn’t change the forecast (at least not immediately). I changed from Minneapolis to Miami 21 minutes ago and it’s still displaying 18 degrees and snowing. There doesn’t seem to be a way to refresh the data manually.

2. It doesn’t look like you can have a list of locations with an easy way to switch between them. That would be a nice feature.

3. When you swipe down to see details, it would be nice to be able to swipe sideways from there to go straight to the details of the forecasted days, instead of having to swipe back up then left then down again.

4. When you go all the way to the end of the forecast (four days ahead of today), it would be nice if you could double tap to go back to the current screen instead of swiping back multiple times.

Except for the location change issue, I think these are pretty minor and will most likely be addressed in the next version. I’m happy with the app so far and I’m looking forward to the future updates.