Dark Sky Weather

Dark Sky Weather is service of a weather forecast which distinctive feature is providing reports to within a minute. In the application algorithms of artificial intelligence for the analysis of radar data of National administration on a research of the ocean and the atmosphere of the USA are implemented. The project began the activity on crowdfunding service Kickstarter in 2011.

History

2020: Apple purchased Dark Sky Weather

At the end of March, 2020 Apple announced acquisition of Dark Sky Weather, but the cost of the transaction of the company did not begin to be disclosed.

Apple already replaced the developer on a page in App Store and also removed the application from Google Play shop. Users of Android devices will be able to use the application till July 1, 2020. After this date service will be turned completely off, and money will be returned to users of a long subscription.

Besides, in the 2022nd year of Dark Sky stops acceptance of new requests for connection to the API (the mechanism for data acquisition by other applications) and completely will stop access to it in the 2022nd year. Data of Dark Sky use popular Carrot Weather, weather expansions for Google Chrome, an alternative search engine of DuckDuckGo and even Microsoft.

Apple announced acquisition of Dark Sky Weather, but the cost of the transaction of the company did not begin to be disclosed

By the beginning of April, 2020 the Dark Sky Weather application is also available in App Store and costs $3.99.

Our purpose always was in providing to the world the greatest possible information on weather, to help as the bigger number of people can remain in dryness and security and to do it, respecting your confidentiality — Dark Sky developers in the blog reported. — There is no best place for achievement of these purposes, than in Apple. We are glad that we have an opportunity to cover much more people and with big effect, than we ever could make.

Apple does not specify why it needed the Dark Sky application though as a part of iOS there is own service of this sort – the regular Weather application. Perhaps, it in the future will receive technologies of the absorbed startup.^[1]

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