eattheeggs

I’d like to like the Accuweather app. And under the right circumstances I’d willingly pay for it to both support the developers and to remove ads. But on principle I refuse to pay a cent for subscriptionware. And, now that it’s obvious that without a paid subscription Accuweather has dumbed down the app to unusability, the app is leaving my phone. As much as I’m not happy with Apple’s purchase of Dark Sky, turning it into their Weather app, I can say it actually manages to do what a weather app is supposed to do: (mostly) accurately forecast weather events. When I pay for a license to use an

I was all set to jump to Camera+ 2 on my iPhone 8+ (ios 15.4), but after reading all the Camera+ 2 “ “known issues,” necessities for workarounds and missing features in the “upgrade,” I think I’ll wait to spend $7.99.

Years ago, I paid for Goodreader on my then iPhones 3 and 5. I liked the app very much for what it would do that I paid for it to do: allow me to copy onto my device, locally, content of web pages for later reference and for offline reading in remote locations common to my locale. I suffered through waves of “feature”-filled updates because the app still did what I needed. Now, though, the app comes with so many bells and whistles, its primary functionality is obscured. Beyond this, in order for me to prepare PDFs of documents I download, I am required to upgrade to “Pro,” a subscription ser