Comments on: Jerusalem – Yahoo Weather iPhone App FAIL

By: Global Voices in English » Israel: iPhone Weather App Divides Jerusalem

Global Voices in English » Israel: iPhone Weather App Divides Jerusalem — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 07:38:22 +0000

[...] want to know the weather for Jerusalem on your iPhone, you're going to have to get specific, reports Jewlicious‘ CK. You will now have to choose between East and West Jerusalem. “On the [...]

By: Rabbi Yonah

Rabbi Yonah — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 00:49:46 +0000

Jerusalem is back!

By: Ariel Shaul

Ariel Shaul — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 23:31:05 +0000

I tried Yahoo! and weather.com: no change. This is only an Apple iPhone thing. Either the programmer went rogue, or Steve Jobs became a Coolaid Drinker. Either way, Apple is responsible. I believe asking AT&T to complain to Apple might get results.

By: tweety

tweety — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 19:39:29 +0000

I call on anyone with a conscience to stop buying apple products altogether.
They have no right blaming yahoo for their choices….!

By: Weather or not « Quite Alone

Weather or not « Quite Alone — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 12:42:03 +0000

[...] Israeli and Jewish blogospheres are, understandably, up in arms. This is one example – and this Israeli news site reports today (June 6th) that Israel’s [...]

By: LB

LB — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 02:57:56 +0000

Can anyone suggest an app I can use in instead?

I’m not sure if there’s an iphone app, but accuweather’s dashboard widget (mac) still only has Jerusalem, without the fictitious east and west cities.

By: Joanne

Joanne — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 02:45:43 +0000

Well, at least we’re not at the point yet where they’re replacing “Israel” with “Palestine.”

[Israel AND Palestine would be ideal; I'm not referring to that.]

Anyway, I agree that tech companies have no business drawing international borders. Also, what a waste! They’ll just be entering the same information twice.

By: Lori

Lori — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 20:17:21 +0000

ah, weather channel. I’m down with that.

By: Lori

Lori — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 20:16:12 +0000

I’d be glad to delete that app. Tech companies have no business endorsing or drawing geo-political lines. The question is, does it hurt them somehow financially to delete the app, or will it just make it harder for me to figure out the day’s weather? Can anyone suggest an app I can use in instead?

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 19:05:05 +0000

Alex,

Yes you can delete apps from the Touch. Log into iTunes on your computer, find the app, delete and sync.

By: Yahoo! Weather App on iPod: Really?! « Rejoice with Trembling

Yahoo! Weather App on iPod: Really?! « Rejoice with Trembling — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 17:40:04 +0000

[...] political statements about Jerusalem, but I didn’t make anything until I came across this article (thanks Cori). In summary, one cannot check “Jerusalem” weather; rather, one must [...]

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 14:26:40 +0000

I noticed this on my iPod touch, too. How freaking ridiculous. Unfortunately, you can’t delete the Yahoo app from the iPod touch.

By: lori

lori — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 12:46:49 +0000

very interesting. good reporting, CK!

By: vicki

vicki — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 12:39:01 +0000

Way to stick it to the Big Bad Israeli government, Yahoo.

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 10:41:44 +0000

Time to give up our Yahoo accounts.

CK – you bought an iPhone?

By: froylein

froylein — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 09:12:42 +0000

Oh, now I know where Jerusalem went… I had Jerusalem saved as one of the locations in MyYahoo, and at some point it was gone. I didn’t put any thought into it because Brooklyn had already disappeared twice by then. What a cowardish thing of Yahoo to do this without any prior announcement.