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Dark Sky Removed From iOS App Store Ahead of Upcoming Shutdown
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They have probably to buy that one also...
I have come up with the idea that Apple is now too big and rich of services that they don't know how to make a simple reliable Music and Podcast app anymore.
I can't find the rain radar map and prediction of the next hour on Apple's Weather app ... is it there somewhere. It's the most useful feature of Dark Sky for me, I can see the rain coming and dress accordingly for my daily walk. If Weather does not do this, can you or anyone suggest an app that shows the active rain radar movie and prediction?
I know right? I wonder when, or even if it will stop. Funny thing is typically the thing Steve would never do is something he in fact did.
I am really, really going to miss Dark Sky. I am struggling with Apple Weather. DarkSky works SO much better where we are. We are living on an island with a flat end and a mountainous end, an area of more than 400 square kilometres. The weather is considerable different around the island, there can be rain on one side and sun on the other, even between villages. There can be strong winds where the ferry lands, while the other side is calm. I can store every single village in Dark Sky, but Apple Weather stores the island name, and that's it. I can't add another location on the island. Any other service in the UK e.g. MetOffice, BBC Weather, XCweather allows multiple locations here. So frustrating.
Its how the developer use the data and display it to the user
Dark Sky is still my favorite weather app. The new weather app in iOS is pretty good but not as good as Dark Sky was.
I have been running dark sky for so long that I really do not want to uninstall it from my phone.
I remember my first iPhone, an iPhone 5. I also remember the first app I downloaded. Dark Sky. RIP.
This is a bummer. Apple‘s weather app has improved, but I still prefer dark sky because the UI is so much cleaner and easier to understand at a glance. Apple’s own weather app looks more like an app to track your investments/stocks.
Yep. Steve Jobs was ruthless when it came to making Apple better. Just look at what happened to Konfabulator when Apple added Dashboard to OSX.
How do you replicate this in the weather app?
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Also I don’t see where you can add exact address to the weather app to pinpoint a location that you’re not currently at.
Dark Sky still has the best interface of any weather app, imo
Carrot Weather with Dark Sky's data was the best combination. I'll be sticking with Carrot but have to select a new data source. I never liked Dark Sky's radar view, which was inconsistent (look-and-feel, especially colors) with every other weather radar image I've ever seen, and now Apple's Weather app is the same way. Plus no option for fronts, storm cells, etc…
What does that even mean? And how do you know that. He's long dead. His mind is no longer readable. Did you and him have some conversation prior to his death where he informed you that Dark Sky will never go away? Do you not think that lots of apps were removed on his watch. These kinds statements are pure fabrication designed to mislead and and misinform. How sad.
It would be one thing is Apple improved on the GUI in the weather app, but it's worse.They need to treat weather data and weather forecasts as data and have an expert in data visualisation guide their efforts instead of engineers and artists who apparently think bar charts with gaps between the bars (as if the weather disappears during the gaps) is suitable for a continuous time series.
EDIT: Why do I care about this? Because I live in Scotland with very unpredictable weather and therefore I check the weather probably about a dozen times a day...
EDIT: Why do I care about this? Because I live in Scotland with very unpredictable weather and therefore I check the weather probably about a dozen times a day...
you have no clue what Steve would or wouldn't have done.... Cracks me up when people say such silly things. Clime has room for you at it's table... come on over.
