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DarkSky seems to be a big exception to this

by strunz 3y ago

dangus 3y ago
I disagree. Apple Weather has become an amazing app since the DarkSky acquisition. I especially like the hourly charts.
- strunz 3y ago
  Apple Weather may be better, but DarkSky is gone and it has not included all the features it used to have, such as hourly rain probability for any day.
  - internet101010 3y ago
    Oddly enough this is the one reason why I don't use Apple Weather. I live in Texas - if you don't have covered parking you will inevitably get hail damage. The 1-2 days per week I go into the office I have to check Accuweather beforehand. Precipitation probability is the most important thing in a weather app to me.
    - travoc 3y ago
      Apple Weather developers in the Bay don't really know or care about your Southern hail or wind storms. R.I.P. Dark Sky. Sorry.
    - rz2k 3y ago
      You can set up alerts with windy.com to be notified about a location have a forecast combination of wind and rain that may work well for forecasting hail.
  - dangus 3y ago
    From my perspective as an Apple Weather user, it went from basic and barebones to feature-packed almost overnight. The cost also went down. DarkSky was $4. I wasn't ever willing to pay for a weather app. I see hourly rain predictability for today, and for future days there are hourly precipitation charts in inches. I can't imagine that precipitation beyond the current day on an hourly basis has any chance of being accurate. I think alternative weather apps like DarkSky were incentivized to provide extra information that justifies their existence regardless of accuracy/precision. E.g., if I make my own weather app and my selling point is that I give you a forecast for every 10 minutes or that my forecast goes out 5 years, I don't have to have any shred of accuracy because it's just a forecast. I was able to sell you my app because you're impressed by the fact that I give you more granular predictions.
    - prepend 3y ago
      > The cost also went down. DarkSky was $4. I wasn't ever willing to pay for a weather app. I was the same way. Then I broke down and paid the $5. Best app purchase I ever made. One time fee and used it for years. I wish there were more apps like this.
    - pr10 3y ago
      [dead]
- 1270018080 3y ago
  On the off chance Apple’s weather app isn’t having an outage.
- uptown 3y ago
  I wish Apple's hourly visuals for when it's going to rain didn't require a microscope to see.
- prepend 3y ago
  Apple Weather is better, but not as good as DarkSky. And DarkSky is gone. It’s one of the few apps I bought and it’s frustrating that Apple bought them, picked a few features, killed the rest, and shut everything down. I’m not even complaining about killing the api, that makes sense since Apple doesn’t care about this. But Apple Weather’s maps don’t work as well, the precipitation views aren’t as detailed, the user supplied precipitation reports are gone. It just does different things. But, yes, Apple Weather is now a better app because the acquisition.

DarkSky seems to be a big exception to this

by strunz 3y ago

DarkSky seems to be a big exception to this

dangus 3y ago

I disagree. Apple Weather has become an amazing app since the DarkSky acquisition. I especially like the hourly charts.

strunz 3y ago
Apple Weather may be better, but DarkSky is gone and it has not included all the features it used to have, such as hourly rain probability for any day.
- internet101010 3y ago
  Oddly enough this is the one reason why I don't use Apple Weather. I live in Texas - if you don't have covered parking you will inevitably get hail damage. The 1-2 days per week I go into the office I have to check Accuweather beforehand. Precipitation probability is the most important thing in a weather app to me.
  - travoc 3y ago
    Apple Weather developers in the Bay don't really know or care about your Southern hail or wind storms. R.I.P. Dark Sky. Sorry.
  - rz2k 3y ago
    You can set up alerts with windy.com to be notified about a location have a forecast combination of wind and rain that may work well for forecasting hail.
- dangus 3y ago
  From my perspective as an Apple Weather user, it went from basic and barebones to feature-packed almost overnight. The cost also went down. DarkSky was $4. I wasn't ever willing to pay for a weather app. I see hourly rain predictability for today, and for future days there are hourly precipitation charts in inches. I can't imagine that precipitation beyond the current day on an hourly basis has any chance of being accurate. I think alternative weather apps like DarkSky were incentivized to provide extra information that justifies their existence regardless of accuracy/precision. E.g., if I make my own weather app and my selling point is that I give you a forecast for every 10 minutes or that my forecast goes out 5 years, I don't have to have any shred of accuracy because it's just a forecast. I was able to sell you my app because you're impressed by the fact that I give you more granular predictions.
  - prepend 3y ago
    > The cost also went down. DarkSky was $4. I wasn't ever willing to pay for a weather app. I was the same way. Then I broke down and paid the $5. Best app purchase I ever made. One time fee and used it for years. I wish there were more apps like this.
  - pr10 3y ago
    [dead]
1270018080 3y ago
On the off chance Apple’s weather app isn’t having an outage.
uptown 3y ago
I wish Apple's hourly visuals for when it's going to rain didn't require a microscope to see.
prepend 3y ago
Apple Weather is better, but not as good as DarkSky. And DarkSky is gone. It’s one of the few apps I bought and it’s frustrating that Apple bought them, picked a few features, killed the rest, and shut everything down. I’m not even complaining about killing the api, that makes sense since Apple doesn’t care about this. But Apple Weather’s maps don’t work as well, the precipitation views aren’t as detailed, the user supplied precipitation reports are gone. It just does different things. But, yes, Apple Weather is now a better app because the acquisition.