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Apple acquires Dark Sky

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Re: Apple acquires Dark Sky

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Post by ledauphin »

mcjiggerlog wrote: post #410
kvakkefly wrote: post #248

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can try Yr: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=no.nrk.yr&hl=e... It is an app made by the Norwegian Meteorological Institute afaik and works quite well all over the world. I'm curious on how well it works where you live! They have open API's as well: https://api.met.no

Another great option is Klara - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.androworks... Great information density, clean interface and has by the far the best widget of any weather app I've seen. It manages to display so much information with graphs without being visually overloaded.

just tried this and its graph-centric UI is exactly the thing I loved for years about Wunderground before it went dramatically downhill.

But please, let's not tell anyone else about this - I am tired of my favorite apps always getting ruined.

Re: Apple acquires Dark Sky

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Post by dublinben »

vertis wrote: post #408
tw04 wrote: post #389

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So you move from apples to googles? At least Apple pretends to care about privacy.

Privacy is an interesting argument. Apple theoretically respects privacy more, but you have to take their word. You don't have control of your device. Android phones on the other hand at least have the option of installing a variant that is more privacy focused, such as Copperhead[1]. I can install F-Droid and follow some of the other recommendations on the Free Software Foundation website to "Free my Android"[2]. Al…

For every "expert" who takes advantage of those options on Android, there are thousands upon thousands of Apple users who get better privacy by default.

Re: Apple acquires Dark Sky

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Post by j-james »

sandyarmstrong wrote: post #126
kyledrake wrote: post #33

> Android and Wear OS App > The app will no longer be available for download. Service to existing users and subscribers will continue until July 1, 2020, at which point the app will be shut down. Subscribers who are still active at that time will receive a refund. IBM bought the Weather Underground app and ruined it, and now Dark Sky was bought by Apple and they're ruining that too. Now I will have zero good weather…

I cannot begin to say how much IBM ruined Weather Underground. The app was _perfect_! I was thrilled to pay for it. Now it's probably the worst app on my phone and I should just delete it. It takes forever to start, more than half the time it loads no data, and even if it is loaded the UI redesign has made the whole thing slow and useless. Would love suggestions for another app on Android.

I use Geometric Weather [1].

It's beautifully designed, has an excellent selection of widgets, and is open source.

You can even set your lock screen to be a live wallpaper of the current weather.

[1] https://github.com/WangDaYeeeeee/GeometricWeather/

Re: Apple acquires Dark Sky

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Post by ksec »

droopyEyelids wrote: post #35
untog wrote: post #4

Sigh. I mean, congratulations to the founders of Dark Sky. It’s a wonderful app and they deserve all the money they’ll get from this and they deserve a lot of credit for not selling user data when almost every other weather app does. But shutting down the API and Android apps feels like an egregious move by Apple. And I hope we actually see a good improvement to the Apple weather app as a result of this. I remember a…

In Tokyo I was blown away by Apple Maps- found it way more useful than Google (gmaps is my default). Maybe only useful to tourists who are used to simpler transit systems, but I was happy to see Apple was driving the state of the art there.

I think this is the new Apple Map, the old Apple Map and Map Data from Japan is possibly the worst of all maps in developed countries.

Everyone I know in Japan defaults to Map from Yahoo.

Re: Apple acquires Dark Sky

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Post by k2enemy »

sandyarmstrong wrote: post #126
kyledrake wrote: post #33

> Android and Wear OS App > The app will no longer be available for download. Service to existing users and subscribers will continue until July 1, 2020, at which point the app will be shut down. Subscribers who are still active at that time will receive a refund. IBM bought the Weather Underground app and ruined it, and now Dark Sky was bought by Apple and they're ruining that too. Now I will have zero good weather…

I cannot begin to say how much IBM ruined Weather Underground. The app was _perfect_! I was thrilled to pay for it. Now it's probably the worst app on my phone and I should just delete it. It takes forever to start, more than half the time it loads no data, and even if it is loaded the UI redesign has made the whole thing slow and useless. Would love suggestions for another app on Android.

I agree. I haven't found anything that compares to the old Weather Underground app's plot of weather data. It was such a brilliant way to convey so much data quickly and clearly.

After finding no substitutes, I started making my own weather app (for my own private use) this week to duplicate that functionality. But of course I was using the Dark Sky API which will now get shut down. I just can't win this one!

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Post by kube-system »

tclancy wrote: post #470
scarface74 wrote: post #455

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So you don’t know about their podcast directory API that’s been open and free for over a decade? Almost every podcast player for iOS and Android use it.

>The API will continue to function through the end of 2021.

I need an API key. They have stopped issuing them today.

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Post by dominotw »

untog wrote: post #4

Sigh. I mean, congratulations to the founders of Dark Sky. It’s a wonderful app and they deserve all the money they’ll get from this and they deserve a lot of credit for not selling user data when almost every other weather app does. But shutting down the API and Android apps feels like an egregious move by Apple. And I hope we actually see a good improvement to the Apple weather app as a result of this. I remember a…

>A large economic downturn means a lot of small, independent companies will struggle to survive. Being swallowed by a megacorp might be one of the few ways to keep something alive.

this is going to huge oil company consolidation now

Re: Apple acquires Dark Sky

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Post by orn688 »

mcjiggerlog wrote: post #410
kvakkefly wrote: post #248

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can try Yr: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=no.nrk.yr&hl=e... It is an app made by the Norwegian Meteorological Institute afaik and works quite well all over the world. I'm curious on how well it works where you live! They have open API's as well: https://api.met.no

Another great option is Klara - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.androworks... Great information density, clean interface and has by the far the best widget of any weather app I've seen. It manages to display so much information with graphs without being visually overloaded.

Know of any apps like this that are available for iOS? I loved the old wunderground app's graphs and have been trying to find a replacement for ages...
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