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Re:Apple’s next big thing: A business model change by Larrikin on Monday September 12, 2022 @01:16PM (#32813437)
As an Android user, it used to be a fun party trick at the bar, to show everyone the alert on my phone from dark sky that it was going to start raining in X minutes or that it was going to stop raining in Y minutes and then everyone checking later and it being basically down to the second accurate.

As a former paid user of Dark Sky that lost that information when Apple bought them I feel no sympathy for iOS users that Dark Sky has gone to crap

I am sad such an amazing tool for the world was destroyed by a corporation trying to deprive another corporation so they could maybe make a little more money.

Re:Apple’s next big thing: A business model change by awinder on Monday September 12, 2022 @05:19PM (#32817147)
The integration of dark sky was definitely rocky but apple is running dark sky as a data api now, this android app is apparently using it as it’s weather data source now:

https://www.boondogglelabs.com/projects/forecaster.html

Re:Apple’s next big thing: A business model change by skyo on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @03:00PM (#32828763)
The Dark Sky API is getting shut down in a few months: https://blog.darksky.net/