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Here’s the Dirt on Dark Sky

Apple didn’t “kill it”. Not at all.

DALL-E 2 image by author of clouds and lightning over a field of grass

I have read and listened to a lot of ill-informed gibberish about Apple killing the Dark Sky weather app. I was about to write up a fist-shaking post about how wrong so much of the reporting has been when I happened upon Bart Busschots talking about it on the NosillaCast podcast. He did a bang-up job of ‘splaining it!

You can read the transcript for that at this link; the bit on Dark Sky starts near the end.

Podfeet.com transcript at [1:37:16] And Dark Sky has been a beloved weather app for people who live in places that it rains.

Or, if you use Overcast on IOS, you can jump right to that section to listen using https://overcast.fm/+JCQo8TX4/1:37:01

If you don’t want to do that, here’s the TL;DR version mixed with my own feelings.

Dark Sky is far from dead

Yes, the app is gone. Apple bought Dark Sky a year or so back, announced that they’d be removing the app, and as of a few days ago, it’s gone.

And yes, it’s gone from Android too, so I guess it’s dead to you if you use Android.

But it is not dead. The secret sauce (not really secret at all) of Dark Sky has been built into Apple’s…