Welp , I can buss that $ 3.99 bye-bye .
Dark Sky , the splendid conditions app thatApple buy last March , is doomed — which we already knew . What we did n’t have intercourse until now was the potential execution date for the iOS app . In a June 7 update brand to the Dark Sky website , the companyannounced : “ Support for the Dark Sky API service for be client will continue until the closing of 2022 . The iOS app and Dark Sky website will also be available until the end of 2022 . ”
That last sentence there should stop you from clicking the download button in the App Store — unless you do n’t mind buy an app with an apparent loss date . ( We ’ve attain out to Apple to clarify whether the iOS app will cease to function after 2022 or simply be unsupported , which is just a obtuse human body of last . )
Screenshot: Gizmodo/Dark Sky
Anyone could have assure this come , peculiarly after this week’sWWDC keynote , in which Apple declare a mass of changes come iniOS 15 , include an updated Weather app that incorporates some of the best features from Dark Sky — itself an obvious thing to await after Apple spent some undercover amount of money to corrupt the whole company and move to keep out down the Android reading last August .
All of this is why I , a engineering science diarist who should know all these details off the top of my head , feel like a knucklehead . I recently purchase Dark Sky ahead of a camping trip , so I could have the best possible information about the weather before sleeping outdoors for a week in the middle of Pennsylvania . And while the app truly is great — accurate weather , great design and UX — I ca n’t say I ’ve used it enough to justify pass even a measly $ 4 on it .
The June 7 update is n’t all sorry news , however — at least not for developers who apply the Dark Sky API , and the users who benefit from it . Dark Sky in the beginning said its API would only continue available until the end of this year . As iOS developer David Smith , one of the first people tospotthis calendar week ’s update , noted , that extends the Dark Sky API ’s life for an extra year .
Of naturally , this whole billet is just another monitor that we do n’t truly own anything any longer — we’re simply lease the digital goodness we pay for until someone somewhere decide to take them aside . So , if you recently downloaded Dark Sky , all I can say is , enjoy it while it lasts .
Update 3:40 pm ET , June 10 : An Apple voice declined to gloss on how , incisively , the death of Dark Sky as a standalone app and internet site will wager out , so we ’ll just have to wait and see .
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