Crashes Frequently both technically and in terms of failed attempts at humor

I fail to see why so many rate this app highly. I do not encounter a lot of issues with app crashes on my late-2013 27” iMac running the most current up to date version of OS X El Capitan as of this writing. However, this app does randomly crash fairly often when I access it to view the weather. Just now I discovered an easily reproducible crash here that I sent in the reports for. So I hope it helps them to fix the problem. All I have to do is click on the button to view future weather, select tomorrow’s date which happens to be March 17th as i write this and BOOM. It crashes every time. I restart the app, do the same steps, crash - repeatedly. The one time I tried to have the app share its forecast it also crashed then. Also, most times it starts up, Siri’s voice that it uses begins with distortion and is garbled briefly and then finishes up what it began to say okay. This happens every time on startup here. I want to stress again that I rarely have any problems with this system at all. I love it. It works great. Most of my apps work just great but this one ain’t so great.

My other issue with this app is the rather uneven attempts at humor. It has at times made me smile. More often than not though it tends to make me groan and on one occasion even managed to offend me with an inappropriate remark about death. I think that’s in very poor taste where it is entirely possible that someone in ill health could choose an app like this to hopefully brighten their day a little. You might think I am just being silly, overly sensitive or whatever but I guess my view just comes from being a nurse for many years and seeing so many people who are terminally ill, suffering, dying, dead, etc. So to me, making light of that in a weather app, predicting your own death is coming soon in a very flat matter of fact delivery is just really bad. I heard and I saw it and I thought what was supposed to be funny here? Honestly, I really did. I’m fine but I worry about who else might see that who could be hurt by it for real. Some things, you don’t make jokes about to a random unknown audience. Announcing that in such a serious tone with zero punchline to lighten it up at all is really terrible when the very real chance exists that someone terminally ill could have this app. I don’t know what they were thinking of. There was just nothing funny there at all. There really wasn’t. It made me wonder is the software written by a 20 something person who has not yet outgrown their teenage sense of immortality and so would not even consider what I just mentioned here.

Honestly, one has to be pretty easily amused to find this amusing in my opinion. It’s a nifty idea but they probably should bring somebody onboard with actual talent in the area of comedy rather than relying on software developers to come up with their own decidedly amateur efforts which detract from this app’s potential. Am I being a hard case about this? Maybe but I don’t think so. I am just being honest. I love to laugh and have fun. I consider it good medicine to be sure. I’m not that hard to please, honestly I am not but this app just plain fails at this as far as I am concerned.

So I guess I’ll just hope this is seen as a potential voice of reason here in a sea of 5 star reviews this just does not deserve either technically or otherwise. I don’t hesitate to rate good apps accordingly and I have mostly been fortunate in picking winners. This one needs major work. I hope it gets it. It could be great. I could be so much better than it currently is. How this got to be an Apple Editor’s Choice is beyond me.

Linmukai about CARROT Weather