14 DAY TRIAL // In 2013, Apple design guru Jony Ive confessed to Yahoo’s Marissa Mayer that he was jealous, and that it was a feeling he didn’t usually get. The reason? Yahoo’s all-new weather app.
In his book “Marissa Mayer and the Fight to Save Yahoo!,” author Nicholas Carlson reveals that Ive and Mayer bumped into each other at an industry event. The Apple designer decided to let something off his chest. The following excerpt reveals what that was:
“Ive sidled up to Mayer and, in a confiding tone, told her, ‘I’m tormented by the Weather app, Marissa. I’m so jealous,'" said Ive, in his British accent. "'I don’t get jealous.'" Mayer replied, "'Jony, if the Weather app made you jealous, we’ve got something up our sleeve on Flickr that’s going to make you want to die.'”
Ive reportedly replied (jokingly, of course), “Oh, go to hell.”
Yahoo did good on Mayer’s promise and, months later, released a jaw-dropping new Flickr site. Apple, for its part, awarded the Yahoo Weather app with an ADA (Apple Design Awards). In all fairness, Yahoo Weather on iOS looks like a product Jony Ive himself would have commissioned.
It displays amazing photos that match your location, time of day, and current weather conditions, it gives you detailed reports when you want them, or concise reports when you’re pressed for time, and tracks things like rain, snow, extreme heat, fog and other conditions with animated weather effects. Users also get sunrise/sunset times, interactive radar, satellite, heat, wind maps, the works!