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What's the point of Weather app respecting privacy if its data source (OpenWeatherMap) has horribly inaccurate data?

I use Weawow and Today Weather, none of them have access to Location, actually both of them have no permissions granted at all and works fine. I don't use apps which don't allow manually selecting Location.

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Chicken-and-egg problem. You would say the same about the data provider if there was no decent frontend for it.

Not really, data source is way more important than form how it is delivered. Beatiful app with horrible forecast is useless, while horrible looking app with great forecast is still acceptable. Data source is the most improtant thing at weather app, which is why I won't even bother install some app which has for instance only inaccurate Open Weather data, no matter how good the app.

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