Dark Sky iOS app will no longer work from Dec 31 • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by tomaskafka » Tue, Sep 20, 2022, 8:58 AM UTC

morley wrote: post #10

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've used the weather.gov site for the last ~5 years, and it has been great. I bookmark both the 7-day local forecast[1] and the hourly dashboard[2]. [1] https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=40.71234500000... [2] https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?w0=t&w3u=1&w5=pop&...

Hi, if you like meteograms (I do, as you might tell :)), I tried to make them really really beautiful, and turn them into home/lock screen widgets and watch complications in Weathergraph: https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id1501958576

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

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Post by tomaskafka » Tue, Sep 20, 2022, 9:02 AM UTC

scarface74 wrote: post #115

a4isms wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

More than a decade ago, I blamed the victims. I still do, in a way. When you build on top of someone else's platform, you are engaged in digital sharecropping. The platform owner acts like they own your customers, and you are tilling the landlord's fields in exchange for 70% of what you can earn selling your app. You may think the landlord is taking an outrageous cut of "your" sales, but the landlord thinks they own…

Has anyone who is doing arm chair legal analysis on HN actually been following the entire thing where Apple announced support for Android for WeatherKit? https://www.androidpolice.com/dark-sky-api-android-weatherki...

Yep, they offer pretty nice REST API with quite generous rates.

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

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Post by tomaskafka » Tue, Sep 20, 2022, 7:08 PM UTC

thirdsun wrote: post #305

iudqnolq wrote: post #296

My $500 backpacking satellite communicator, manufactured by a 17B company, uses the Dark Sky api to get weather forecasts. They've got a hilarious FAQ saying basically "Apple won't talk to us either, but we hope they don't shut it down soon". Sadly exactly what I've come to expect from any software written by Garmin. It's all incredibly half-assed compared to their hardware and actual satellite/gps algorithms.

They can use Apple's WeatherKit REST API which is the replacement for the Dark Sky API. Garmin really doesn't seem to understand that in this day and age they are supposed to be a software company as much as they are a hardware company.

They don't. I developed and now maintain a weather app for Garmins, and the state of firmware is really bizzare. You can see individual device team merge patches from some kind of core, and then eventually releasing them - so the new bug appears in a simulator, then slowly makes its way to various devices during the next 1-4 months, and then, if you complain loud enough, the same process happens again with a fix.