AccuWeather is excited to share important updates coming this summer to the AccuWeather API Developer Portal,
Oh yeah, the famous “we are excited”. It must be a great news for YOU then… 🙄
- excited to share
- to the Developer Portal (as if it were only a dev portal interface and not subscription or established flow changes)
- designed to elevate YOUR experience
- designed to ensure YOU get the most from them
- to better support YOUR development needs
- more powerful platform
- more streamlined platform
- to suit every stage of YOUR journey
- Discontinuation of Free Limited Trial Packages
Yep, completely dishonest corporate double-speak - and not just in the word “excited”.
Just fyi the people who own/ run it are assholes and the people who work there are miserable for the most part, so this isn’t surprising
You really should be providing a source when you make these kinds of claims:
Joel Myers’ Wikipedia article is pretty damning. He does sound like an asshole.
Myers faced criticism in 2005 when he supported the National Weather Service Duties Act of 2005, a bill … that would have prohibited the National Weather Service from publishing weather data to the public when private-sector entities, such as AccuWeather, perform the same function commercially.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Myers#Political_activities
report found Accuweather “did not take reasonable action to prevent and remedy harassing conduct.” Joel Myers, who was president of Accuweather during the period covered by the agreement, signed a settlement where AccuWeather agrees to pay out $290,000 to at least 39 women, institute in-person training for managers to identify harassment, and send harassment complaints to a 3rd party till at least 2018.[13][14]
Hmm that lines up
I mean I could but that’s what all the people I know who worked there said, and me saying that is the the hearsay I’m sharing
I stopped using these guys when it became clear they were doing everything they could to prevent the government from developing their own app.
None of this is surprising. People called it the instant trump defunded… everything
I really like Open-Meteo. It’s worked really well for my weather-related projects.
My weather app uses that for weather data. I’ve found it more reliable than other people’s apps.
Huh. Pokemon GO uses the accuweather API. I wonder if they’ll start paying or if they’ll jump ship.
