Funny how people will state ‘facts’ that match their internal perceptions, regardless of what’s been publicly stated over and over again.
Apple has released the WeatherKit API, which is privacy-first, and pretty much provides what Dark Sky did.
My "internal perceptions", as you called them, was based on Apple's history. Not any Apple hate. The fact that they are opening something up is very cool, I'm glad to hear it. But a single open API does not address an overall very closed ecosystem.
Edit: I was wrong. It has REST API and access from other platforms are allowed.
> It’s easy to use WeatherKit in your apps for iOS 16, iPadOS 16, macOS 13, tvOS 16, and watchOS 9 with a platform-specific Swift API, and on any other platform with a REST API. [0]
I know people who are already using it in random python scripts and whatnot, e.g. https://sixcolors.com/post/2022/06/adding-apple-weatherkit-d...
Dark Sky has been exceedingly clear about this for a very long time.
I don't know how the parent commenter missed it, unless they started the side project several years ago and never went back to check the API docs.
But today's announcement has nothing to do with discontinuing the Dark Sky API. They gave ample warning about that as well as replacement guidelines long ago.
And no, Apple is not interested in sharing its API's with anyone.