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Apple acquires popular weather app Dark Sky and will shut down the Android version - The Verge[^]
I've never heard of Dark Sky before. But I'm curious, what would Apple want with it? Thoughts?
Somehow it must be part of their plan to overtake the world but I'm not imaginative enough to see how.
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[ insert comment here about dark brain-matter ]
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capitalism.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Maximilien wrote: capitalism
Then why remove it from Andoid?
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Android is socialism. 
I'd rather be phishing!
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ZurdoDev wrote: Then why remove it from Andoid?
That's what I don't get. A weather app is hardly a killer app that you need to keep exclusive, to bump sales.
Do they not want anyone who works for them to have android programming skills?
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Well - doesn't that mean that if you want to play with this that you must buy an apple device?
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Never heard of it before: I use AccuWeather which has a minute-by-minute very local rain forecast. Handy if you have washing out on the line ...
The BBC weather app is pretty good as well, but only resolves to "50% chance this hour" and gets increasingly unreliable as the hours mount up (as is normal for weather forecasts)
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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On android, I use one that's built into the clock I like. It can draw from Met.no, Foreca, or Open Weather, but they all say pretty much the same thing ("it's cold and windy, and will probably rain" -- and that's on a good day).
I don't see the point in hunting for a super-accurate one, because none of them are -- although the Buienalarm [^] radar app is pretty damned good at telling precisely when it's going to rain (in NL; it doesn't work so well elsewhere).
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Again that's why I'll never own an Apple product!
I'm hiding from exercise...I'm in the fitness protection program.
JaxCoder.com
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Mike Hankey wrote: Again that's why I'll never own an Apple product!
They clearly don't need your help. 
I have an iPhone but it's because my company bought it. It works well enough. But I don't get the hype over apple stuff.
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My first job in 84 was programming on an Apple II and I could see then what was going on and never owned another.
And you're right they don't need my help there are plenty of people that do buy their products.
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ZurdoDev wrote: They clearly don't need your help
Hang on, I'm doing my part too in boycotting everything Apple. So there's 2 of us...
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dandy72 wrote: So there's 2 of us...
That could be serious. The threat has now doubled!! That's huge. 
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Add another one... I had an iPhone (my old work phone) but the battery started to do silly things. 30% more of what they asked me for replacing the battery I got my current phone. (And in the meantime the iPhone 4s and iOS 6.x I had has been sorted out of so many things, it additionally was not worth to repair it)
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
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Maybe it's part of a nefarious super-strategy to buy all the best apps and remove them from Android. Then people will have no choice but to buy iStuff instead...
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Apple is not beyond being that petty and you know it.
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Apple doesn't want its software engineers seeing how wonderful an open platform can be.
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It's purty. And fairly accurate.
My guess as to why they're dropping Android is that the plan is to scrap the standalone app, and merge it into Apple Maps (Something Google Maps doesn't currently have, so increasing value for the Apple product. Oh, and lock-in.)
TTFN - Kent
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They wasted the opportunity to mention herd immunity.
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Probably wondering why their boyfriends haven't been up to see them for a few days.
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Griff again forgot to close the front door.
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Doesn't that fall into the category of "accidentally on purpose ?"
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Good news: our survey got some views from "normal" people (see here[^].
Bad news: this is what they concluded from the survey:
Developers Are Distracted
Developers working from home in the COVID-19 crisis are facing more distractions than ever— from the pantry to family. Keep this in mind when offering advertising and content to developers. Their already fragmented attention is juggling new and different distractions.
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