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ajdudetoday at 12:41 PM2 repliesview on HN

> Fifteen years ago, we started work on the Dark Sky weather app.

I will never forgive them for selling out to Apple.

Dark sky was the greatest weather app I've ever used, it had features such as considering the pressure of the atmosphere when predicting rain using crowd sourced phones, and it was the only app I've ever used that was as accurate as it was during a time when my job relied on quickly leaving the office and running across town multiple times a day.

it was sad watching the API get killed off but even worse was that a lot of the features that dark sky had never really made it into Apple weather, and the rain predictions at Apple Weather had were never as accurate as dark sky. There were several times where it was actively raining and Apple weather never even knew. Dark sky always knew.

Nope nope nope fool me once shame on you fool me twice shame on me, I'm not touching this with 39 1/2 foot pole.


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estearumtoday at 12:54 PM

Assume they do sell out again in a year or 5.

Why exactly should you willingly choose to have worse weather predictions between here and there?

A weather app isn't something with lock-in or dependencies where using a maybe-not-permanent-solution is going to hamstring you if it disappears.

IgorPartolatoday at 12:48 PM

Exactly my sentiment. Will they sell out to Google or Microsoft this time?