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Dark Sky iOS app will no longer work from Dec 31

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Re: Dark Sky iOS app will no longer work from Dec 31

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Post by sklargh »

pronoiac wrote: post #14
jmann99999 wrote: post #4

I am a long-ago purchaser of Dark Sky. I find I never use it on my iPhone. Carrot Weather is always superior in both the forecast and Radar. Dark Sky's "it will rain in 5 minutes" was hit or miss. I live in the mountains, so perhaps, Dark Sky works well in a less difficult environment. That said, if it disappears tomorrow, I won't miss it.

I'm picking up Carrot Weather now. Its "Editors' Choice" description says it draws data from Dark Sky, though? Edit: disregard the source comment. It draws from multiple sources, like Foreca.

You can pick your data source from a list...it also has a nice function that will use your weather station for local conditions within a given radius. That said you need to use a specific brand of weather station for that to work.

Re: Dark Sky iOS app will no longer work from Dec 31

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Post by CraftThatBlock »

raybb wrote: post #16

What weather app are people using on Android? I'm currently using Geometric Weather + MyRadar: https://f-droid.org/packages/wangdaye.com.geometricweather/ https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.acmeaom.an...

I've been using Today Weather for years and it's been amazing.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=mobi.lockdown....

Re: Dark Sky iOS app will no longer work from Dec 31

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Post by sklargh »

Drybones wrote: post #5

Upsetting about the app, but the new iOS weather app has the functionality essentially. The real gut wrencher is the darksky website going down. It’s how I check weather most of the time a no other browser weather site comes close to it in simplicity and features.

https://open-meteo.com/en will let you create a very nice dashboard for yourself...very easy to use.

Re: Dark Sky iOS app will no longer work from Dec 31

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Post by Gigachad »

wpietri wrote: post #50
Gigachad wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a weather app. There is no monopoly on weather info. The data is pretty much public and anyone could start their own alternative.

In which case, it sounds like there was no need for Apple to buy this.

The reason seems pretty simple, because it was cheaper to buy it than to pay their own people to try and recreate it.

Re: Dark Sky iOS app will no longer work from Dec 31

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Post by jnovek »

quickthrowman wrote: post #7
Drybones wrote: post #5

Upsetting about the app, but the new iOS weather app has the functionality essentially. The real gut wrencher is the darksky website going down. It’s how I check weather most of the time a no other browser weather site comes close to it in simplicity and features.

It definitely does not have the same functionality, you can only see the current temp/precip prob %/humidity/dewpoint/wind speed/etc, you can’t see the forecasted stats I listed in the iOS weather app, you can only get hour by hour temperature. I’m very disappointed that Dark Sky is going away. If Apple added in the ability to see forecasted hour by hour wind speed/humidity/dew point/etc, it’d be a decent replacement…

I get migraines triggered by the weather and I can’t find another app with barometric pressure forecasts and history.

Re: Dark Sky iOS app will no longer work from Dec 31

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Post by jszymborski »

Drybones wrote: post #5

Upsetting about the app, but the new iOS weather app has the functionality essentially. The real gut wrencher is the darksky website going down. It’s how I check weather most of the time a no other browser weather site comes close to it in simplicity and features.

I usually used Darksky for the hourly percipitation forecast. It helped me time things out.

For fellow Canadians who used it similarly, the Canadian Gov't has a pretty handy hourly forecast[0].

The radar is also nice [1].

[0] https://www.weather.gc.ca/forecast/hourly/qc-147_metric_e.ht...

[1] https://www.weather.gc.ca/map_e.html?layers=radar&zoom=-1&ce...

Re: Dark Sky iOS app will no longer work from Dec 31

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Post by unsignedint »

Drybones wrote: post #5

Upsetting about the app, but the new iOS weather app has the functionality essentially. The real gut wrencher is the darksky website going down. It’s how I check weather most of the time a no other browser weather site comes close to it in simplicity and features.

Shortly after Darksky left Android, started using Windy. [1]

Not necessarily a simplest solution for weather forecast, but provides wealth of information to satisfy my meteorological curiosity as well. (I pay Premium for higher precision data, and I think it worth every penny IMHO.)

[1]: https://www.windy.com/

Re: Dark Sky iOS app will no longer work from Dec 31

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Post by freetime2 »

atchoo wrote: post #38

A platform buying up cross-platform apps and making them uni-platform really should be slam dunk anti-trust. It's obviously anti-consumer and concentration of market power.

On the other hand, since there are presumably more Apple Weather users than Dark Sky users, by moving the functionality of Dark Sky into the Apple Weather app, more people will benefit from the features than when Dark Sky was independent.

Re: Dark Sky iOS app will no longer work from Dec 31

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Post by ollien »

raybb wrote: post #16

What weather app are people using on Android? I'm currently using Geometric Weather + MyRadar: https://f-droid.org/packages/wangdaye.com.geometricweather/ https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.acmeaom.an...

I've been using Overdrop.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=widget.dd.com....

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