Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Dark Sky iOS app will no longer work from Dec 31

blog.darksky.net

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

171–180 of 313 posts

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

#171

Post by inlined »

GeekyBear wrote: post #108
hahajk wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This looks like Dark Sky's response to that article. https://mobile.twitter.com/darkskyapp/status/108135144619558... So, not the case with Dark Sky.

>We still do not, and never will, sell your location data to 3rd parties. They sold the whole company. If they had sold to a data hoarder like Google or Facebook, I have very little doubt that the data would have been included. Who in their right mind thinks Google wanted to buy Fitbit for anything but their data?

I’m really tired of hearing everyone suggest Google is some boogeyman trying to do something subversive to get your data. Anyone who thinks this should grab their nearest google engineer and talk about privacy controls internally. Privacy is critical to the company and every product launch has a privacy review. In one of my launches we even had to add an opt in to allow users to share data with themselves because it crossed product boundaries.

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

#172

Post by hansvm »

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 was using Dark Sky till apple killed it. At the transition they had a unit conversion bug, and the team were simultaneously super helpful and fixed it immediately, with a palpable air of sadness that they knew the android efforts were wasted in just a few weeks.

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

#173

Post by JeremyNT »

unsignedint wrote: post #58
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/

On android, I switched to the open source "wX" app, which uses NWS data under the hood. It's incredibly detailed and although the UX is a little rough it's because it's aimed at power users, so I figured the HN crowd might appreciate it.

Play store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=joshuatee.wx

F-Droid: https://f-droid.org/packages/joshuatee.wx/

Source: https://gitlab.com/joshua.tee/wx

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

#174

Post by JeremyNT »

_emacsomancer_ wrote: post #39
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...

- wX (based on NWS data): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=joshuatee.wx / https://f-droid.org/en/packages/joshuatee.wx/ - weawow: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.weawow / https://weawow.com/

wX is truly amazing. I don't understand why it's not more popular. I guess the UX is focused on nerds and power users so it may not get a lot of love from those just looking for a quick forecast at a glance.

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

#175

Post by dylan604 »

Alex3917 wrote: post #161
gcanyon wrote: post #153

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Does iOS do the freaky-accurate “light rain starting in five minutes, ending twenty minutes later” thing? If so, I’d love to know where, I’ve missed it.

No, but it's currently in beta in the API, so possibly it will come in the future: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/weatherkitrestapi/...

i'm not running any betas, and i have this feature. i don't remember if it was the latest iOS or the one prior though

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

#176

Post by jbaber »

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'm very happy with the unofficial NOAA app by graniteapps: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nstudio.we...

It gives a graph of the % chance of rain on an hourly basis.

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

#177

Post by jshprentz »

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 have used the WeatherBug app [1] on my most recent three or four Android phones. It provides tabs for the current conditions, hourly and 10-day forecasts, and a radar map.

They also have a website [2] and an IOS app [3]. I haven't used either of these.

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aws.androi...

[2] https://www.weatherbug.com/

[3] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/weatherbug-weather-forecast/id...

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

#178

Post by PascLeRasc »

inlined wrote: post #171
GeekyBear wrote: post #108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>We still do not, and never will, sell your location data to 3rd parties. They sold the whole company. If they had sold to a data hoarder like Google or Facebook, I have very little doubt that the data would have been included. Who in their right mind thinks Google wanted to buy Fitbit for anything but their data?

I’m really tired of hearing everyone suggest Google is some boogeyman trying to do something subversive to get your data. Anyone who thinks this should grab their nearest google engineer and talk about privacy controls internally. Privacy is critical to the company and every product launch has a privacy review. In one of my launches we even had to add an opt in to allow users to share data with themselves because it…

All of the Google employees I've met have been incredibly vocal about security and privacy, really considerate about how technology should serve us, as well as being some of the kindest engineers I've ever met. I can't really square the HN attitude of Google being evil with my experience.

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

#179

Post by calsy »

iamdamian wrote: post #156
ezfe wrote: post #131

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you on iOS 16? iOS 15 doesn't fully integrate it.

I was describing my experience on iOS 15 for the past year or so. The incorrect results I'm seeing are in-app—what do you mean that it's not fully integrated in iOS 15?

Prior to iOS 16, Apple Weather was using 'The Weather Company' for their forecasts I believe.

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

#180

Post by abduhl »

wpietri wrote: post #168
wrycoder wrote: post #123

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Many people love Dark Sky, and Apple simply killed it.

Exactly. Comments here show that people had a good thing. Apple took it away from them to get a competitive advantage.

What did Apple take away here? The app icon? Android support has been gone since 2020 and most (all?) of the features of Dark Sky are integrated (and enhanced apparently) into iOS 16. So you have a situation where all the people that "had a good thing" now have it by default without an extra app they have to click on and now more people will have that good thing by default for free. If anything, this is anti-anti-competitive behavior because it's PRO-consumer. Apple is literally giving away a $4 app that was previously available ONLY to iOS users to all iOS 16 users.

If this is anti-consumer in your mind I would really like to hear what acquisition is not an antitrust problem from your perspective.

Post reply on HN