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Apple buys Dark Sky weather app and shuts down the Android version, will also end API access for other apps that use it
Dark Sky for iOS is one of the most popular weather apps available, and Apple has clearly taken notice, because now the tech giant has officially acquired the "hyperlocal" weather app.
Compared with other contenders in the same category, Dark Sky is noted for having more granular detail on the weather at a user's actual location, offering "down-to-the-minute forecasts" via a pleasing user interface.
[...] News of the acquisition was announced via a blog post from the app developers which also outlined the key changes that the purchase will bring. Most notably among them will be the discontinuation of the Android and Wear OS version of the Dark Sky apps.
"The app will no longer be available for download. Service to existing users and subscribers will continue until July 1, 2020, at which point the app will be shut down. Subscribers who are still active at that time will receive a refund."
That same July 1, 2020 cutoff applies to weather forecasts, maps and embeds from the Dark Sky website, which will be shut down on that date.
Along with the death of the Android app, Dark Sky's API (application programming interface) will no longer be available for others to use, meaning that other popular apps like Carrot Weather that rely on the API will have to find an alternative solution, although they'll be given until the end of 2021 to do so.
Also a similar article on The Verge.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by DeathMonkey on Friday April 03 2020, @04:21PM (18 children)
The constitution only authorizes the state to grant exclusive rights to authors and inventors. If you didn't write it or invent it the constitution does not grant the state the power to abrogate my free speech right to repeat something.
Now if only I could get the Supreme Court to agree with me!
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday April 04 2020, @02:11AM (17 children)
It says nothing about those rights being non-transferrable though. And before you go off on your idealistic idiocy, I want you to thoroughly think through how it would affect not just big corporations but everyone who holds any type of copyright or patent. You know, like the GPL or every tech contractor on the planet.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 05 2020, @04:12PM (16 children)
Copyright is rent collecting theft, especially when the owner of the license is not the creator. It exists to protect distributors exclusivity. Plagiarism is the only legitimate issue, and that only for the actual creator of the work. Speculators can fuck off. Power to the Torrents!
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday April 05 2020, @09:06PM (15 children)
Create something then we'll talk.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 05 2020, @10:24PM (14 children)
About what? The weather?
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday April 06 2020, @02:31AM (13 children)
Anything. Code, art, anything that makes the world a better place for you existing. Then tell me how awesome it is that you can't sell it because the copyright doesn't transfer so as soon as you sell it, it's public domain. Or contribute to a FOSS project that used to be GPL and cheer as you watch corporations snag your code to use in closed-source, commercial projects.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 06 2020, @08:19PM (12 children)
Once again you fail. Without copyright, there is no "closed source". Commercial projects are distributed also.
You singular legitimate cause is plagiarism. Only the creator has any rights at all, those of attribution.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday April 06 2020, @11:33PM (11 children)
You're not that bright, are you? Closed source doesn't mean under copyright, it means the source is not shared. There are plenty of trade secret type things that are not under copyright or patent but are not released right this second.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 07 2020, @01:15AM (10 children)
it means the source is not shared
Then it's leaked. Copyright only protects the distributor.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday April 07 2020, @03:03AM (9 children)
Oh? Tell me the exact recipe for KFC's 11 herbs and spices. Moron.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 07 2020, @04:37PM (8 children)
:-) I like you! You're so funny!
Has the recipe been leaked?
And why should I care if I like my recipe better?
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday April 08 2020, @02:43PM (7 children)
Nice try at confusing the issue by moving the goalposts but no cookie for you. It's a trade secret that's remained so for a very long time.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 08 2020, @04:40PM (6 children)
I moved no goalposts, there are none. Copyright is still rent collecting theft. That is a given that should not need mentioning, but for you people in denial, it has to be, over and over. If we can make the torrents, etc. more robust, the issue will be moot, we can simply ignore it.
You didn't answer the question. Has it been leaked? And is Google trying to hide it?
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday April 09 2020, @01:49PM (5 children)
The GPL and BSD licenses are rent-collecting theft? Interesting.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 09 2020, @04:42PM (4 children)
Without copyright, everything is freely distributable. There is no "closed source". GPL and BSD license would be unnecessary and superfluous.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday April 10 2020, @03:06AM (3 children)
See above regarding shit NOT being freely distributed despite not being under any IP protections. How long are you going to continue being wrong after being given undeniable proof of your wrongness?
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 10 2020, @04:53AM (2 children)
See above regarding shit NOT being freely distributed despite not being under any IP protections.
No penalties for distribution without your IP bullshit.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday April 10 2020, @11:20AM (1 child)
Also no guarantees of any kind of redistribution ever either. You're taking an absurd ideological position though. Either you know it and you're trolling or you're an idiot who wishes to remain so. So I'm going to quit talking to you now.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 10 2020, @03:43PM
Also no guarantees of any kind of redistribution ever either.
Your weak insults notwithstanding, it is very presumptuous of you to believe that is what I am looking for. The right to copy and share as we see fit is paramount. To state and impose the contrary is simple might makes right, tyranny