Apple acquires Dark Sky weather app, and that’s bad news for Android users

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  An example of Dark Sky's maps from the desktop Web version. [credit: Dark Sky ]

Popular weather app and data-collection service Dark Sky has been acquired by Apple for an undisclosed sum, a blog post from the Dark Sky team announced. The post claims that Dark Sky will now "reach far more people, with far more impact, than we ever could alone."

The iOS app will not see any changes "at this time," and it will continue to be listed on the App Store. Android and Wear OS are a different story, though. The Android app will no longer be available for download, and "service to existing users and subscribers will continue until July 1, 2020, at which point the app will be shut down." Active subscribers will get a refund.

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