Why can iphone icons stay up to date with the date but not the weather?

[Dragoro]

Seems like it should do both.....

[Youngbinks]

I do wish the weather icon could change for the temperature of the first city in the list. That would save me a lot of hassle of waiting for all of the cities to load. Definitely a novel idea.

[Too Many Secrets]

Originally Posted by Youngbinks

I do wish the weather icon could change for the temperature of the first city in the list. That would save me a lot of hassle of waiting for all of the cities to load. Definitely a novel idea.

Co-sign for use and cool-factor.

[wjp09]

keep dreaming. We wanted this for a LOONG time.
http://www.everythingicafe.com/forum...date-5045.html

[acosmichippo]

ah yes, #126 on the "simple things to implement that we'll never have" list.

[JoeT]

Most likely because the date can be determined without accessing the network, but the weather cannot. I would not mind a periodic check (say once per day), however.

There's lots of things that should be configurable on the iPhone and are not. O Update, Update, why hast thou forsaken me? Alas, a Palm I hope you do not become!

[acosmichippo]

true, it is not as simple as determining the date... however, if a Vista gadget can accomplish the task, i'm pretty sure apple could figure something out.

[Lincoln]

The iCal icon in Leopard has also been updates to show the current date; it sat at July 16th in Tiger.

I'm quite sure this is possible; it may take a second to load,but surely possible.

- John

[JoeT]

Absolutely possible; they probably were thinking that non-critical data like that should only be updated on-demand. They could have made it configurable, but chose not to - back to my earlier point. One thing I am interested to see with the SDK is how many apps spring up to overcome Apple's laziness.