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I'm very disappointed to see Apple consume and extinguish a great service.
by fooey 7y ago
I'm very disappointed to see Apple consume and extinguish a great service.
- politelemon 7y agoThey've jumped straight to Extinguish without any of the Embrace or Extend.
- thatcat 7y agoEmbrace Extend Extinguish is only for similarly sized competitors, for smaller companies it's just Obtain Extinguish.
- floatingatoll 7y ago"Extinguish" assumes they have no intention to replace third-party data harvesters with their own service. Apple currently redirects their platforms' weather data HTTP requests to third-party services like Weather.com, that are known for aggressively marketing and reselling user data as a primary revenue stream. Seems more likely they see this as a way to improve weather data for their customers without seeing their customers' data abused for marketing and tracking.
- kevin_thibedeau 7y agoThey could just get the weather data directly from the national bodies that provide it. It's not like they were hurting for money to staff their own weather division.
- dsl 7y agoCompanies like The Weather Channel (which owns weather.com) have been fighting open access to government funded weather data. What you can get now lacks the detail required to do serious predictions or building anything useful. Dark Sky kinda found a workaround by processing radar imagery directly. To your point, it looks like they just spent their money to staff a weather division.
- floatingatoll 7y agoThe Dark Sky app includes this checkbox on my device, implying they have additional data not available to the weather services: Enlist your device's onboard sensors: Send Pressure Data: Anonymous periodic barometer readings [toggle]
- icelancer 7y agoShrug. Dark Sky agreed to it. Blame them for not having the fortitude to do what is right in the face of money.
- dang 7y agoYou posted this once and then posted it again as a (non-)reply to the top comment. Please don't do that.