Application
Rich apps, poor data
Yahoo! has been pushing their new mobile application, Yahoo! Go, for some time now. I decided to try it, since I use Yahoo! a lot for movie information, and the promise of a rich Flickr client was tempting as well.
However, after a few uses I realized that the WAP/mobile HTML site — accessible via wap.oa.yahoo.com — is still superior for me for the one thing I access Yahoo! the most for: Weather.
Just look for yourself.
wap.oa.yahoo.com |
Yahoo! Go |
The two screens represent the maximum amout of data I can get about the day’s weather from each system. That’s right: Strong Storms is all that I know when using Yahoo! Go. I don’t know that the winds could be damaging. I don’t know that those storms run through both day and night. In fact, I don’t know any differences between day and night forecasts. The simpler application has more useful data than the “more useful” application. Not to mention…
wap.oa.yahoo.com |
Yahoo! Go |
I’m not even getting my local forecast. I’m getting the conditions in from who-knows-where, probably Central Park, 7 miles away. Bizarre.
