![]() Of course, smartphone weather apps do more than just spit out highs and lows. Another study found that the NWS was the least accurate compared to other meteorological services. Eggleston writing for the Freakonomics blog found that the NWS was right 77 percent of the time. Looking at television weather forecasts, J.D. And, frankly, that information isn't all that accurate. It's not that the weather isn't something useful to look up, but compared to all the other incredible things phones can do-there are over 500,000 apps in Apple's store!-it is one of the least impressive.Īll Internet weather predictors get their information from the same place, the National Weather Service, so it's not as if smartphone technology has improved the accuracy of forecasts or the speed of delivery. That gives a pretty sad portrayal of the way technology has changed our lives. That's according to a Online Publishers Association survey (via AllThingsD's Peter Kafka), which finds that 90 percent of respondents use their phones to "access information." That makes sense because it is something smartphones are particularly good at over their counterparts ( dumbphones), and when broken down, the most popular type of information to get is a weather report, as that chart to the right shows. ![]() Smartphones are magical little computer boxes, capable of things both high tech and useful and yet the number one most popular thing people do with their amazing smartphones' technology is. This article is from the archive of our partner.
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