My weather app should work like my Maps app
Google Maps or Apple Maps, they work the same way. With your permission, they detect your location and speed and collect all the information and can tell people relatively accurate traffic conditions.
So why does Weather go online to ask the temperature when you’re outside and it could just measure the actual temperature, collate all the data, and tell people the temperature it actually is?
Aside from the fact that most phones can’t tell the temperature around them. I mean if they could.
I’m starting to believe the authorities are lying to us about the heat. My car can tell me the temperature, and it’s usually like 5°F hotter than my phone says.
Aviator here: I want to see the prog charts and the goddamn GOES imagery. Get this computer-generated Accu-Weather What Are You Doing Step-Meteorologist monkey wank out of my goddamn standard briefing.
I think your aside is a pretty big point...
As you pointed out, your phone doesnt have a thermometer. Or, it does. But it is for checking for overheating. But if your phone tried to measure ambient air temp, it would actually measure temperature inside its case, temperature in your pocket, temperature of whatever it is sitting on, etc.
And even if it did have this function, I typically don't care about the current temp. I care about what temp it is going to be, or if it will rain, etc. I want a weather forecast, not information about the weather around me
The sensor for your car is usually hidden behind the front bumper and has fresh air blowing over it as you drive to give an accurate measure of ambient temperature. What would your phone be measuring? Your body temperature if it’s in your pocket. The temperature of the battery is going to spike when in use or charging. Turning the screen on even for an instant to check the time is going to significantly spike the temperature. ANY use of the CPU/GPU is going to get hot. Nowadays the whole phone is a heat sync to dissipate heat generated by everything inside. There’s probably a dozen other things I haven’t mentioned that would make this a bad idea.