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Where do these opensource apps get their data from? Usually retrieving weather data costs money when you use an api.
I guess those „opensource“ weather apps use an ad model to finance this api calls. May work on a large user base.
Usally iOS users buy their products so i guess gathering a large user base for ad revenue model isnt working for those devs
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Where do these opensource apps get their data from? Usually retrieving weather data costs money when you use an api. I guess those „opensource“ weather apps use an ad model to finance this api calls. May work on a large user base.
Usally iOS users buy their products so i guess gathering a large user base for ad revenue model isnt working for those devs
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Dunno about “usually”. There’s providers that cost and there’s providers that don’t. There’s certainly multiple free providers available.
Aren’t there many govt funded free weather API’s around the globe?