Worth noting that those $25k earning players he mentioned are in fact getting paid to do nothing. Their salaries are still a part of the NBA Salary Cap and deferred to this year. Guys like Vander Blue ($28.8k), have been paid to play in a mere 3 "games" for a total of 5 minutes.
The Weather app had been powered by Yahoo! previously so they could have partnered with them after the release of their app to do the default app and update it for iOS7.