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https://www.climacell.co/blog/dark-sky-weather-api-customers...
They also offer consumer apps for Android and iOS. The apps' privacy policy page is currently broken, I've asked them to fix it: https://www.climacell.co/legal/app-privacy-policy
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This really sucks, I work for a stormwater environmental company and we were looking at darksky to replace our existing provider; DarkSky is one of the best providers of weather data.IBM also bought weather underground, I am really what these big tech companies want with forecasting/weather companies. I just wish they kept the API running though.
Have you considered using the National Weather Service API directly? To someone with only a casual interest in this stuff it seems like it has what I would want, curious about shortcomings compared with the many commercial offerings? Especially considering it's their data that e.g. DarkSky resells. https://www.weather.gov/documentation/services-web-api
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Have you considered using the National Weather Service API directly? To someone with only a casual interest in this stuff it seems like it has what I would want, curious about shortcomings compared with the many commercial offerings? Especially considering it's their data that e.g. DarkSky resells. https://www.weather.gov/documentation/services-web-api
The Dark Sky API combines lots of data sources, and its weather data is not limited to the US. I use it for cities all around the world. The US National Weather Service API cannot replace it.
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I ended up having to use an Apple device temporarily after my previous phone died. While there are things I really enjoy about Apple, the lack of choice is a dealbreaker for me. I can't buy a kindle book through the app on my device, because iBooks. Added: Ended up back on an Android device pretty quickly.
It's possible to strip drm from kindle and other books to avoid getting tied to a platform by prior purchases. https://github.com/apprenticeharper/DeDRM_tools
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I used to drive a convertible. I liked Dark Sky because I would get a warning notification if it was going to rain right were I was and I could go put the top up. I haven't been able to find this type of notification in Flowx. Am I missing this, or by chance is it cmoing?
No, there are no notification. I plan to add a notification editor one day where you can configure any notification you want. That said, the to-do list is super long so it might be a while before this feature is done. I depends on demand. That said, Rainviewer is working on predicting rain from radar images for up to 2 hours ahead. Check them out and ask when this feature might appear. They might have beta testing an…
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Not processors though, right? OSX and Windows are distinct as well, but Web apps are portable. The main reason why there isn't an analogue native standard is that the economics incentivize walled gardens.
Web apps are not actually "applications" in the sense we're talking about here and are wholly irrelevant.
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Apple has shown they are not afraid to build products that are 100% services (TV+, Music, etc). Just because a product is delivered as a service doesn't mean the correct strategy is to spray it everywhere. It's not a matter of seeing past the walled garden. So long as there is a roadmap for deep platform integrations (identity, payments, AR, GPU, etc) and the desire for those integrations to be 100% available to _any…
You sound like you're reading from the RIM playbook circa 2004. It's not a matter of IF, it's a matter of WHEN the product that kills them shows up. The only reason that Facebook hasn't already supplanted them is their horrendous record on security - eventually a player without that track record will come along and eat their lunch. Facebook messenger became "good enough" just about at the exact time the Cambridge Ana…
And that player will need to be in the App Store, follow Apple's policies, and give them a cut of any IAPs. Either way, Apple wins.
iMessage just needs to have a better reputation than the built-in messenger for other platforms. It does _not_ need to beat all other messengers.
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RGBZ in general. They killed a market just to have a minor feature in their phones. Also keep in mind that Primesense's biggest precious licensee was an Apple competitor.
They’re adding rear facing depth sensor for use with ARKit and are known to have an AR headset in development. I think the new sensor works differently from Primesense (which used a grid projector and a camera instead of LiDAR?) but clearly Apple is doing more with this. I'd be shocked if they didn't have years worth of prototype phones with Primesense systems on the back.
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> Weather Timeline used to be awesome, but it used Dark Sky APIs and got shut down during this whole Apple acquisition thing. What? Was it shut down by the ‘acquisition thing’ that was announced today, or the API that Apple will be supporting for the next 18 months? I think you’re drawing conclusions not supported by anything.
His timeline is messed up. A year ago, Weather Timeline got pulled from the app store because sales wasn't covering the API cost. After a month or two, it got sold to the company that made MyRadar. https://www.reddit.com/r/androidapps/comments/9gti4r/rip_wea... https://www.androidauthority.com/weather-timeline-android-ne...