<story><title>iPhone 6</title><url>https://www.apple.com/iphone-6/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dominotw</author><text>How is that going to be useful?</text></item><item><author>cryptoz</author><text>Biggest news for me: barometer!&lt;p&gt;Biggest question: Can we access it to read raw atmospheric pressure? There seems to be no documented API.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cryptoz</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m building a dense network of atmosphere sensors using smartphones in order to build a more accurate weather model [1]. Android&amp;#x27;s APIs allow us to access the raw data, but all of Apple&amp;#x27;s marketing talks just about &amp;quot;elevation&amp;quot;. I&amp;#x27;m hoping they give us access to the raw sensor, and not just elevation change.&lt;p&gt;Humanity ought to have a much better weather forecast than we have now, as we&amp;#x27;re nearing 1B+ internet-connected barometers. Hopefully Apple&amp;#x27;s sensors can add to this network!&lt;p&gt;[1]: &lt;a href=&quot;http://pressurenet.io&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;pressurenet.io&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>iPhone 6</title><url>https://www.apple.com/iphone-6/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dominotw</author><text>How is that going to be useful?</text></item><item><author>cryptoz</author><text>Biggest news for me: barometer!&lt;p&gt;Biggest question: Can we access it to read raw atmospheric pressure? There seems to be no documented API.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Fuzzwah</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m in a very small niche of users, but I&amp;#x27;m a skydiver and have an app on my GS3 which tracks freefall speed:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.platypii.baseline&amp;amp;hl=en&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;play.google.com&amp;#x2F;store&amp;#x2F;apps&amp;#x2F;details?id=com.platypii.b...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Having a barometer was a key feature I looked for in a phone.</text></comment>