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That's an answer but not a reason. Surely it didn't take Apple 12 years to figure out how to make an iPad-native weather app.

Either they explicitly didn't want to make one for some reason or they just didn't care. If they actually wanted to make a weather app they could have done it.

Because Apple does not have infinite development resources.

There have always been far more important things to work on than an iPad weather app. In this case they happened to get it for free with their Dark Sky acquisition.

Isn't that exactly what they have done though? I guess they were looking but didn't come up with something better.

> makes use of the larger screen of the iPad in every possible way

For example, the Xsnow accumulation on the top in-app widgets! I wonder - if you shake the iPad, will it clear away?

Funny, I switched to a linux tablet pc last year and at one point ran xsnow while running macos in virtualbox.