Re:Apple acquires Dark Sky
by michaelmrose on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @01:26AM
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Is it realy important that a greater number of people may someday use it in the medium term when in the short term there are less actual users and in the long term the potential is again less.
>And perhaps they’ll be able to use the technology in other countries, bringing in more users than Dark Sky ever could.
45% of ios users are well off Americans. Outside of the US 90% of phones are Android who won't be able to use it anymore.
> Perhaps more. It’s a matter of comparing all users of Dark Sky, including via the API and on Android, against the user base of iOS.
Not disagreeing with the following paragraph, but GP specifically asked about "access", and all of these iOS users already had access to Dark Sky; this strictly decreases access, even if more people end up using it.
Perhaps more. It’s a matter of comparing all users of Dark Sky, including via the API and on Android, against the user base of iOS.
And perhaps they’ll be able to use the technology in other countries, bringing in more users than Dark Sky ever could.