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Re:Apple acquires Dark Sky by PaulHoule on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @04:28PM (#22742180)
Who needs the weather channel when we have the national weather service publishing forecasts on a 1km x 1km grid?

Is the value of the weather channel that investors expect the national weather service to be abolished?

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Re:Apple acquires Dark Sky by ceejayoz on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @05:22PM (#22742748)
> Is the value of the weather channel that investors expect the national weather service to be abolished?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/11/25/weather-i...

"In 2017, Trump nominated Barry Myers, the former CEO of AccuWeather, a company that has advocated for the privatization of large parts of the National Weather Service, to lead NOAA. However, his nomination stalled, in part because of conflict-of-interest concerns since his family still owns the private forecasting company."

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Re:Apple acquires Dark Sky by Spooky23 on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @06:35PM (#22743484)
Myers doesn’t want to abolish the weather service, he wants to limit who gets the data they collect.

It certainly wouldn’t be profitable for Accuweather to have to do things like gather weather data and have supercomputers to analyze.

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Re:Apple acquires Dark Sky by yborg on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @05:56PM (#22743102)
The value of these APIs is that they aggregate data worldwide. I don't want to write against the API of every national weather service in the world.
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Re:Apple acquires Dark Sky by clairity on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @04:46PM (#22742372)
no, to clarify, apple has been using the weather channel (exclusively, i believe) for weather info across its ecosystem. you can't get integrated weather info on apple devices (iphone, watch, etc.) without it (you can download other apps but they wouldn't integrate with the OS).

i'd be super happy if they switched to the national weather service, but absent that, dark sky is more privacy preserving than the weather channel (who reportedly sell location data, for example).

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