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Court outlaws German Weather Service's free weather app
WetterOnline has won its case against Germany's national weather service. The company sued the service over the anti-competitive nature of its free weather forecast app.
The German Weather Service (DWD) will no longer be allowed to provide general weather forecasts in a free mobile phone app after a federal court ruled in favor of a private firm on Thursday.
[...] the national meteorological service will only be permitted to offer extreme weather warnings for free and that a DWD app offering general weather forecasts must contain advertisements or be purchased by users.
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No national weather service could ever make a profit by giving away weather information for free.
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(Score: 2) by captain normal on Saturday March 14 2020, @03:43AM (1 child)
Sailors here on the west coast started calling AccuWeather InaccrateWeather back in the 1980s after more than a few really bad calls on ocean races.
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(Score: 2) by dry on Sunday March 15 2020, @02:47AM
I get my weather from Environment Canada, web page or app and they're fairly accurate. Now and again I compare to AccuWeather (some TV stations use it) and I'm amazed how inaccurate AccuWeather is consistently, especially their long range (2days+) forecast.