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Apple Acquires Weather App Dark Sky
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The idea for an app that provides weather information?
Assuming that was a novel idea (it isn't), Apple published the first weather app.
I find similar results. Its because this site shows weather data from a station 15 miles to my west.Weather Forecast and Weather Forecast Accuracy for Your City
5-day weather forecasts for the United States in a nice, easy to read format, AND the 1- to 3-day out accuracy of other weather forecasters (Accuweather, The Weather Channel, MyForecast.com, Intellicast, and the National Weather Service) including links to their forecasts.www.forecastadvisor.com
You can go to this site and enter your zip code to compare the accuracy of the various weather providers. For my zip in California Dark Sky does not do so well. Might be better where you live.
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Because there aren't already a thousand free calculator apps on the App Store?
The purchase was made today. Maybe give Apple 24 hours before you start demanding it be made free?
iOS's default weather app is perfectly mediocre. It does the job, but only the bare minimum job. I use The Weather Network app mostly, even if it is clunky.
I can see them integrating this into a future iOS release in some capacity.
I can see them integrating this into a future iOS release in some capacity.
Great... They bought the most overhyped weather app on the App Store.
"known for its accuracy"
Sorry. I can't catch my breath from laughing so much.
edit: Keep giving those thumbsdown. Each person below that did has bought in to the Dark Sky marketing. Neither your phone or their API can give you a real-time hyperlocal forecast.
Totally with you. I was fed up with Accuweather so I tried DarkSky among others. Every single app I tried showed "snowing" (correct). DarkSky: Currently foggy(?)
Sorry, but if DarkSky can't figure out my CURRENT conditions correctly, how do people believe their forecasts?
Worked for me wonderfully in London, the rest of UK, and NYC. For many years.
Maybe 'cause your anecdotal experience is different than the next persons?
actually the app itself is pretty terribly in terms of design.
clearly apple wants to roll the dark sky tech into their weather app.
I’ve used that site for many months as well and Dark Sky has always been in 4th. place for my area (AZ). As an example, yesterday was a beautiful day with not a cloud in the sky and temps in the upper 70’s but got an alert from Dark Sky during the day that there will be possible drizzle in 5 minutes lasting 7 minutes.Weather Forecast and Weather Forecast Accuracy for Your City
5-day weather forecasts for the United States in a nice, easy to read format, AND the 1- to 3-day out accuracy of other weather forecasters (Accuweather, The Weather Channel, MyForecast.com, Intellicast, and the National Weather Service) including links to their forecasts.
You can go to this site and enter your zip code to compare the accuracy of the various weather providers. For my zip in California Dark Sky does not do so well. Might be better where you live.
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clearly the website itself will be taken down and apple will be integrating the data into their own apps
i guess you don’t know the difference between A major corporation and an independent developer or small corporation!
Why would Apple take all the hassle for your small bucks?
Hope it stays good. I've been using it for years. They probably want to use the API for their weather apps.
if you use Carrot, you know that the API for The Weather Channel was removed a while back, as IBM no longer lets outside developers use their data. could be that even a company as big as Apple couldn't buy their way into keep using the same API they've used for years (after Yahoo!), so they made a preemptive strike to buy their own data for when their TWC/IBM contact expires.