Eulogy for Dark Sky, a data visualization masterpiece (2023)
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Eulogy for Dark Sky, a data visualization masterpiece (2023)
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Re: Eulogy for Dark Sky, a data visualization masterpiece (2023)
#2Meteoswiss app is the best weather app ever created
Re: Eulogy for Dark Sky, a data visualization masterpiece (2023)
#3Dark Sky, my love <3
Re: Eulogy for Dark Sky, a data visualization masterpiece (2023)
#4Yes Dark Sky had the best UI of any weather app I have used.
I now use Weathergraph which does it differently but I would go back to Dark Sky (and pay for it) in a flash.
It shows the correct things and on a phone understands that showing the temperatures across the screen is useless as if I go out I want to know what the weather is like when I might make the journey back in 8+ hours time. I might not care what the weather is in 4 hours time as I will be inside.
Re: Eulogy for Dark Sky, a data visualization masterpiece (2023)
#5Dark Sky was a marvel, and when it first came out, its ability to say rain will start where you are in 2-3 minutes was a marvel.
The information design argument is 100% valid, but I also marvel that, having bought the company, Apple's weather app still isn't as precise or accurate. I don't know whether Apple's privacy focus prevents them making the same precise predictions, or if there is some other reason they don't, but it's sad that in 2025 we don't have the same level of performance as we did twelve years ago.
Re: Eulogy for Dark Sky, a data visualization masterpiece (2023)
#6Meteoswiss app is the best weather app ever created
I haven't used Dark Sky but on my Android phone, Meteoswiss is definitely very very good
Re: Eulogy for Dark Sky, a data visualization masterpiece (2023)
#7Apple should have just used that app itself, rather than trying to build whatever that they have right now.
Re: Eulogy for Dark Sky, a data visualization masterpiece (2023)
#8The Apple Weather app has gotten better over time, though it’s still not a perfect replacement.
Scrolling through the Dark Sky screenshots, I can recognize many of the same things now incorporated with Apple’s. And Apple does offer location specific notifications of rain which I find to be pretty accurate, about as accurate as Dark Sky.
There’s largely a perception problem with Apple. People loved Dark Sky as an independent small app that worked well, before Apple took it and destroyed it. Now, even if Apple incorporated all of the same data and features, it still wouldn’t give that same spark of joy people had.
Re: Eulogy for Dark Sky, a data visualization masterpiece (2023)
#9Meteoswiss app is the best weather app ever created
How does it compare to Dark Sky?
Re: Eulogy for Dark Sky, a data visualization masterpiece (2023)
#10fwiw, on iOS, I like using WeatherGraph: https://weathergraph.app/
The developer is very responsive, lots of UI customization (both app and widgets) is possible, and pricing is reasonable.