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 w

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.