Apple Acquires Popular Weather App Dark Sky, Will Kill Android App in July

The popular hyperlocal weather app Dark Sky has announced that it has been acquired by Apple. The company will keep to support its iOS, iPadOS, and watchOS. However, Dark Sky's Android and Android Wear apps would be killed along with its website.

Dark Sky's acquisition was announced on the company'south official blog. It said that the company's goal has always been to provide the all-time and most reliable weather information without compromising user privacy. It also explained that the company will continue the development of its iPad, iPhone, and Apple tree Watch apps.

The visitor's Android and Article of clothing Os apps are no longer available on the Play Shop. Those who accept been using those apps would not be able to do so because the visitor would not support them starting July 1, 2022. Users who currently take active premium subscriptions would become a refund. Weather embeds, weather forecasts, and weather maps would continue working until one July 2022, after which they would cease to exist.

Dark Heaven will continue having the website to support APIs and its iOS app. The company's APIs would continue to work until the finish of 2022 and Night Sky won't accept new signups starting today. Neither Apple nor Nighttime Heaven has revealed the details of the acquisition, including the cost of acquisition and the size of the team.

Our Take

Dark Heaven is i of the near attractive weather apps on iOS and its hyperlocal precipitation alerts were quite famous. The app's amazing UI pattern and its accent on user information privacy must've attracted Apple tree to buy information technology. We conceptualize that Apple will brand changes to its weather app, likely with the release of iOS xiv later this year, cheers to its acquisition of Dark Sky.

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[Source: Nighttime Sky]