Bleh. Never been an Apple fan, but this is a shitty move no matter which tech giant did it. They bought a service, cut off a ton of users and are cutting off API access (the best feature for home...
Bleh. Never been an Apple fan, but this is a shitty move no matter which tech giant did it.
They bought a service, cut off a ton of users and are cutting off API access (the best feature for home automation) to turn it into another value-add on their locked-in ecosystem.
Like what would the outrage be if Google bought Spotify and cut out all non-Google users.
Getting good weather data on the cheap is getting harder and harder.
I heard that for the US folks Dark Sky was pretty good, luckily enough in Europe it wasn't that great so I never used it. But yeah it's a shitty move on Apple's part. But hey, that's capitalism...
I heard that for the US folks Dark Sky was pretty good, luckily enough in Europe it wasn't that great so I never used it. But yeah it's a shitty move on Apple's part. But hey, that's capitalism baybee.
Problem with weather is, it's hard to to sell it as a service to people because people are used to using it for free. But a weather app is a service. You have constant server costs and API call costs you need to cover.
I'm in the UK and I use Dark Sky a lot on the web, never used the app. For very short-term forecasts, rain radar and so on, it's always been pretty good for me. Anyone know a good replacement...
I'm in the UK and I use Dark Sky a lot on the web, never used the app. For very short-term forecasts, rain radar and so on, it's always been pretty good for me.
Anyone know a good replacement website which works in a similar way? I used Weather Underground too and that's OK but it's hard to get radar info and map-based forecasts.
Also I always thought Dark Sky's emoji overlay was the most brilliantly stupid thing.
Bleh. Never been an Apple fan, but this is a shitty move no matter which tech giant did it.
They bought a service, cut off a ton of users and are cutting off API access (the best feature for home automation) to turn it into another value-add on their locked-in ecosystem.
Like what would the outrage be if Google bought Spotify and cut out all non-Google users.
Getting good weather data on the cheap is getting harder and harder.
I heard that for the US folks Dark Sky was pretty good, luckily enough in Europe it wasn't that great so I never used it. But yeah it's a shitty move on Apple's part. But hey, that's capitalism baybee.
Problem with weather is, it's hard to to sell it as a service to people because people are used to using it for free. But a weather app is a service. You have constant server costs and API call costs you need to cover.
I'm in the UK and I use Dark Sky a lot on the web, never used the app. For very short-term forecasts, rain radar and so on, it's always been pretty good for me.
Anyone know a good replacement website which works in a similar way? I used Weather Underground too and that's OK but it's hard to get radar info and map-based forecasts.
Also I always thought Dark Sky's emoji overlay was the most brilliantly stupid thing.
Shadow Weather is a pretty nice alternative. It's free, with a paid option.
Oh that's much better than the app I was using, thanks for that.
Dark Sky has a 6 day forecast widget, which is the part I used the most by far. Any other app have something similar?