I just don't understand where Apple Weather is getting the radar information. The weather radar in the native app doesn't match any other app for my area. Dark Sky was/is the easiest to read, but it was also similar to TWC, Accu, etc. Apple Weather shows weird, random blobs on the radar that don't seem to be very accurate.
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Apple Shuts Down Popular Weather App 'Dark Sky'
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Read somewhere that Carrot added a theme that did this, but I have not yet tried it out.
i've somewhat gotten used to the apple weather app.
one thing i absolutely hate about dark sky is the horizontal scrolling thingy at the bottom of each day where you select the data you want to see. it's way too fiddly. it might have been nice if there was an option to gang together all the days so they all follow the one you are changing. like if i'm looking at how much rain there will be today, i probably also want to see the same thing on the next day and the next.
i don't really like apple's dropdown either, so i guess this is not an easy problem when there are only so many gestures.
one thing i absolutely hate about dark sky is the horizontal scrolling thingy at the bottom of each day where you select the data you want to see. it's way too fiddly. it might have been nice if there was an option to gang together all the days so they all follow the one you are changing. like if i'm looking at how much rain there will be today, i probably also want to see the same thing on the next day and the next.
i don't really like apple's dropdown either, so i guess this is not an easy problem when there are only so many gestures.
Couldn't agree more. Apples weather app stalls out and more often than not doesn't load any data.
And just this morning, on the last morning of 2022, so much for apple's weather app hyperlocal forecasts. It indicated that the temp here in UWS of Manhattan was 42º when the Dark Sky had the temp at 53º, which, in fact, was within one degree of other sites/apps. What's more, Dark Sky had it raining (it was), while no rain in the forecast on Apple's weather app till this afternoon.
And people defends apple for no end?
Honestly, the lack of law regulating big tech company purchasing smaller companies is killing more and more amazing stuff as we enter 2023.
dark sky is just one of the many victims of such “buy and throw” megacorp competitor elimination spree.
Honestly, the lack of law regulating big tech company purchasing smaller companies is killing more and more amazing stuff as we enter 2023.
dark sky is just one of the many victims of such “buy and throw” megacorp competitor elimination spree.
A great shame if it truly stops working tomorrow.
My favourite weather app, with the cleanest and easiest to read interface.
Perfect for any rainy country.
My favourite weather app, with the cleanest and easiest to read interface.
Perfect for any rainy country.
Ahem.
My wife is a meteorologist with the National Weather Service. With the stuff they integrated into the Weather app from Dark Sky, she says the stock Apple app is good enough.
She uses the Weather app, and she's an actual forecaster.
Now for radar, that's a different matter. There's Radarscope, and there's everything else. That was the very first app she purchased 12 years ago when she got her first iPhone.
My wife is a meteorologist with the National Weather Service. With the stuff they integrated into the Weather app from Dark Sky, she says the stock Apple app is good enough.
She uses the Weather app, and she's an actual forecaster.
Now for radar, that's a different matter. There's Radarscope, and there's everything else. That was the very first app she purchased 12 years ago when she got her first iPhone.
Wait, what?
First I've heard of this and I use that app every day.
off to find a replacement I guess
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[edit].. just opened Apple's weather app for the first time in a few years.. seems ok I guess.. I'll use that lol
First I've heard of this and I use that app every day.
off to find a replacement I guess
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[edit].. just opened Apple's weather app for the first time in a few years.. seems ok I guess.. I'll use that lol
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Dang! What a sad day it will be tomorrow.
It will be missed by a lot of people. RIP 🪦
It will be missed by a lot of people. RIP 🪦
All of it, no matter what app is using it, essentially comes from the NWS and NOAA.
Make sure that under weather in settings location is set to always. I was having the same issue and location was set to while using the app. Switched it to Always and its working fine now.
Is this based on the assumption that Apple just took DarkSky IP and tossed the rest of the company in a hostile takeover? I'd assume that some DS developers were absorbed by Apple and have continued to integrate DS aspects into the Apple Weather app.
While its always a work in progress, I've been pleasantly surprised with the tweaks Apple Weather has implemented that (to me) seem to be rooted in DS features. DS has been stagant for some time and their Apple watch and iOS widgets were a little lack luster but I've attributed this to only having so much dev resources to support a iOS/Android app across all associated devices. I've been using Dark Sky for as long as I can remember and its been one of the most influential apps have used.
The apple weather app looks pedestrian, takes exponentially more time to see more data per day, and frankly feels outdated. I was very excited for it when they said they were acquiring dark sky, and as a complete apple fanboy cant understand how poorly they have developed this new apple weather app.
That is an expensive weather app after you consider the subscriptions. Worth it for average people?
So, did Apple buy DarkSky just to kill it? I was hoping that they'd leave in at least some elements that made DarkSky one of the most popular weather apps out there, like it's clean, quick-view GUI, but it looks like Apple just folded in whatever they bought into the backend, because I am not getting any DarkSky feels when I use Apple's new Weather app.
Ummmmm…:no. You must enjoy paying subscriptions.
Ahem, meteorology is one of the only occupations where 60% accuracy is standard performance expectation.
i will avenge dark sky if it’s the last thing i do 😫