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Title: Weathering the criticism: Apple makes life on Android a little worse Post by: HCK on April 10, 2020, 04:05:14 pm Weathering the criticism: Apple makes life on Android a little worse
<article> <section class="page"> <p>Last week, Apple acquired Dark Sky (https://www.macworld.com/article/3535217/apple-acquires-dark-sky-weather-app.html), one of the premier weather apps, and summarily canceled the Android and Wear versions of the app, surprising industry observers who looked up from their laptops in unison and said “Someone was making Wear apps? Why?”</p><p>Let the outrage pour forth! It’s not like we’re doing anything else anyway. The Macalope’s just sitting here making quarantine masks out of unused MLB commemorative Opening Day 2020 t-shirts.</p><p>Writing for Fortune, Aaron Pressman asks the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge’s_law_of_headlines" rel="nofollow">Betteridge’s Law[/url]-shattering question <a href="https://fortune.com/2020/04/01/apple-buys-dark-sky-weather-android/" rel="nofollow">“Should Apple be allowed to kill one of Android’s best weather apps?”[/url] (Tip o’ the antlers to <a href="https://twitter.com/ShawnKing/status/1245450715868188672" rel="nofollow">Shawn King[/url].)</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3536648/weathering-the-criticism-apple-makes-life-on-android-a-little-worse.html#jump">To read this article in full, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: Weathering the criticism: Apple makes life on Android a little worse (https://www.macworld.com/article/3536648/weathering-the-criticism-apple-makes-life-on-android-a-little-worse.html#tk.rss_all) |