Your anecdote reminds me of when I think iOS4 or thereabout came out.
A friend was going nuts going OMG OMG THE WEATHER APP UPDATES LIVE NOW. It turns out it just happened to be 73 or whatever degrees out at the time after he updated.
For these small things like weather updates I agree that apple needs to allow developers to update the app icon or whatever with some alert system on the home screen. It wouldn't be overly difficult to implement.
I don't know though. I can see it from apples standpoint; think of the shit storm that would happen when a G rated app showed some x rated stuff on a update. If they want to keep the curated walled garden clean they would have to restrict it like crazy or have updates go through apple inc before approval.
Oh don't get me wrong I'm not saying they need to do this right this instant. But I think a bit of an expansion of the ios notifications to overlay some text over the icon would be a marked improvement over static icons.
A friend was going nuts going OMG OMG THE WEATHER APP UPDATES LIVE NOW. It turns out it just happened to be 73 or whatever degrees out at the time after he updated.
For these small things like weather updates I agree that apple needs to allow developers to update the app icon or whatever with some alert system on the home screen. It wouldn't be overly difficult to implement.