Apple acquires Dark Sky

Re:Apple acquires Dark Sky by gregkerzhner on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @04:40PM (#22742304)

Interesting that Google makes a ton of apps for iOS but Apple doesn't go the other way.

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Re:Apple acquires Dark Sky by zcrackerz on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @04:45PM (#22742363)

That's because Google is an ad company while Apple is a hardware company.

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Re:Apple acquires Dark Sky by lozaning on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @05:57PM (#22743117)

Apple is a services company now according to them, and as demonstrated by the Apple tv app on my Samsung TV.

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Re:Apple acquires Dark Sky by fermienrico on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @06:05PM (#22743196)

Services != Advertisement. Advertisement is about collecting data from potential customers and offering that to advertisers. Services in the context of Apple is about selling the hardware hoping to capitalize on the ecosystem of their services (music, news, icloud, etc). In extreme cases such as Sony who sells PlayStations ("hardware") at a loss hoping to recover it from game sales ("services"). Apple is more like Sony than Google.

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Re:Apple acquires Dark Sky by toss4732 on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @05:54AM (#22747149)

There is still a few years to go by for Apple's service bucks to surpass the hardware bucks, while Sony (the gaming division) is loosing money on hardware.

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Re:Apple acquires Dark Sky by philistine on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @06:15PM (#22743299)

Apple has not described themselves as a services company. Tim Cook has said that growth in the company will come from services. So the company focuses on that. Apple provides some services, it is not a services company.

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Re:Apple acquires Dark Sky by paxys on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @08:52PM (#22744536)

Apple is trying its best to brand itself as a services company, but its actions show that it is not ready to actually embrace the platform openness that comes with it. Look at Microsoft for a much better example of a services-focused company which also sells hardware.

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Re:Apple acquires Dark Sky by toss4732 on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @05:55AM (#22747152)

not really, because iphones have ridiculous huge profit margins. Apple services earnings is not even close to iphone selling earnings. But one does boost the other so that's what they are doing. But there is still a few years to go by for Apple's service bucks to surpass the hardware bucks.

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Re:Apple acquires Dark Sky by mr_toad on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @04:54PM (#22742454)

Google wants people to use their software, Apple wants people to use their hardware.

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Re:Apple acquires Dark Sky by EpicEng on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @09:22PM (#22744711)

It's not that interesting if you take a moment to think about how either company makes money.

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Re:Apple acquires Dark Sky by turdnagel on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @04:43PM (#22742336)

AFAIK there are two Apple apps on Android: one for Apple Music, and another for migrating your data from Android to iOS.

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Re:Apple acquires Dark Sky by realityking on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @05:15PM (#22742669)

Technically five apps across two profiles:

- Move to iOS - Apple Music - Beats - Shazam - Shazam Lite

I'm actually a little surprised they didn't release Apple TV+ for Android.

Profiles - https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Apple+Inc.&h... - https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Apple,+Inc.&...

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Re:Apple acquires Dark Sky by balladeer on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @11:02PM (#22745197)

I've used some of their Android apps (Apple Music for the longest time). It feels like someone made them as a weekend project and then Apple forgot to take it down.

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