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Popular Weather Line App Acquired By Unnamed Buyer, Service to Shut Down Next Year

chris4565 said:
I still didn’t find a proper replacement for this app. I tried out „Overdrop“ and while I love the style I really don’t like the fact that it can’t show multiple cities on one screen. Still looking for a proper alternative.
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I use weather apps a lot and I’m very particular about their funtionality and aesthetics. Every time I comfortable with one app, it gets acquired and ruined by some mega company. I used to use WeatherUnderground before they were acquired and **** on by IBM and WeatherChannel. I liked Dark Sky and then Apple scoops them up but fails to put out an Apple-branded version. And now WeatherLine.

So annoying.
 
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brian3uk said:
Whoever it is I hope they actually utilize the information and keep it up-to-date. Unlike the dark sky app which has been slow to add anything new since the acquisition by Apple.
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Unfortunately, our outdated and poorly enforced antitrust laws make it possible, perhaps even likely, that WeatherLine was acquired by some terrible company like IBM/WeatherCHandel purely to eliminate competition to its terrible app which is nothing but a vehicle for surveillance capitalism.
 
freediverx00 said:
I use weather apps a lot and I’m very particular about their funtionality and aesthetics. Every time I comfortable with one app, it gets acquired and ruined by some mega company. I used to use WeatherUnderground before they were acquired and **** on by IBM and WeatherChannel. I liked Dark Sky and then Apple scoops them up but fails to put out an Apple-branded version. And now WeatherLine.

So annoying.
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Yeah, it's indeed annoying. I tried "Overdrop" recently. I really like the aesthetics but I really dislike the fact of not being able to display multiple cities at once on the start screen.
 
Sorry to necro this thread, but now that Weather Line ? is officially dead, did we ever find out who the buyer was?
 
sputnikBA said:
Sorry to necro this thread, but now that Weather Line ? is officially dead, did we ever find out who the buyer was?
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I read a rumor that it was Fox News.

Could this be it? It's a shame because I have no interest in installing or viewing anything from this organization.

Download the Fox Weather App | FOX Weather

FOX Weather Home of America's Weather Team
www.foxweather.com www.foxweather.com
 
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