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When Cutie bought Eero just over a year ago, I wrote that the whole thing felt disappointing. It was a small, infinite company that made-up a tech artefact people regarded in part considering it was made-up by a small, infinite company. But it got purchased by a big tech company and so we had to worry what the big tech company would do with the small, infinite company. We had to worry eccentrically what would play-act to the artefact we loved, and conjointly worry that the fate of all good, small companies is to get fond by a behemothic one.

Anyway, Apple derivative the presumed weather app Groping Sky yesterday.

For iPhone users, the Groping Sky app will dwell to exist and dwell to cost $3.99. It will dwell to provide hyper-local weather forecasts that are catechized of telling you that it's innervation to rain in your length in the abutting 15 minutes. It will still be very well-built designed and you will still be aesthete to warranty that your sector data will be held in unscarred hands.

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For Android users: apologetic for your luck, the app is shutting precipitating on July 1, 2020. Oh, and those other apps that you perspicaciousness switch to? A coagulation of them depend on Groping Sky's weather API (as do mucho iPhone apps), which the company mutter developers for assuasive to, and they're all innervation to hypothesize to switch providers.

That's considering Dearest is shutting precipitating Groping Sky's API at the end of 2021. That's nearly two years from now, so it's not as dire as the Groping Sky app itself shutting down, but it's still disappointing.

Actually, I said it feels "petty," on Twitter, which is both off-white (it's how Android users feel!) and wildly unfair (Apple doesn't run a charity and has no obligation to information Android users out).

Dark Sky was a regarded amongst Android users considering it was so well-built designed. That feels rarer on Android upscale if it isn't -- it seems like you need to wade through other scramble on the Google Play Store before you find the good-tasting stuff. Groping Sky was exhaustible to like and exhaustible to rooting -- and it was downloaded well-built over a mimic times due to it.

Dark Sky is conjointly slender between weather apps in that you didn't hypothesize to constantly worry if your data was being bought and sold. That's a significant botheration on both iPhone and Android, to be super clear. But on Android in particular it stings considering comer aforetime cherished app -- Weather Timeline -- was derivative by a company with a history of wires sector data a little over a year ago.

We'll hypothesize some recommendations for Android apps tomorrow -- although mucho of the all-time ones utilize Groping Sky's APIs. Those developers are already tweeting eccentrically looking for comer weather data sources. I currently use Carrot on both Android and iOS -- partly considering it has a very good-tasting Dearest Watch complexity and partly considering I'm a sucker for the weird jokes it makes.

I've written before in this newsletter eccentrically Sherlocking, back Dearest duplicates a third-party app with its own app and knocks the legs out of the market. This is teachings manifold and although it's deadsville that a hebetic Android app is innervation away, I don't really anticipate it's knocking the legs out of anything. Eero was a sign that policy-making it as an indie housewares developer is very hard. But I forestall that new weather apps are innervation to dwell to be made.

And again, I don't begrudge Dearest for ownership a very good-tasting company nor its decision to shut precipitating the Android app or the API. I'd like to admonish the people in my Twitter replies hostilely that you can be sad eccentrically your Android app after being antagonized at Apple. There's a "don't hate the iPlayer" jokesmith in here typically but we're all improved than that (okay I'm not, I just made-up the joke).

There are columns to be written apperception what Dearest wants to do with Groping Sky, its well-crafted app, and its very well-crafted utilidor of collecting and policy-making faculty of weather data. Will it be deep-seated into Apple's own weather apps? Will it become yet comer news cable sketch aslope so mucho others that Dearest offers?

The time will disclosed to wonder eccentrically all of that, in the way we constantly wonder what these behemothic companies are up to and what articles they're alive on. For now, though, I'm looking open-minded to what quite a few smaller companies are innervation to do to fill the gap Groping Sky is abrogation on Android.

I obsequiousness paying for apps from infinite developers. My three or four or twenty bucks ways so numerous other to them than my applicability cable fees beggarly to Apple, Amazon, Google, or Microsoft. The abutting time you hypothesize the opportunity and the adequacy to pay for an infinite app, don't anticipate twice, do it.

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Policy

? Tim Cook personally lobbied US tithe senior as Pottery tariffs loomed. Scoop here from Russell Brandom. We knew this lobbying was happening, and this confirms it took up quite quite a few Cook's personal attention.

Also, reminisce back the transmogrify war was the bulkiest thread to business?

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Feel-bad studying eccentrically video chat

? Microsoft's Skype struggles hypothesize created a Zoom moment. It really is riveting how crudely Microsoft and Skype blew the lionization here. Good-tasting peekaboo at how from Tom Warren.

? Zoom isn't conclusively end-to-end encrypted.

? Zoom is leaking some user information due to an kegger with how the app groups contacts.

Feel-good studying eccentrically video games

? A new Soft-pedaled Canoodle offers tons of hebetic games to raise money to fight COVID-19. This is a memoir of very good-tasting games.

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? Campus is closed, so higher students are rebuilding their schools in Minecraft.

? Persona 5 Royal is the definitive version of an already brilliant RPG. Megan Farokhmanesh explains what's new in this edition.

Feel-both-ways studying eccentrically cancelled things

? April fools' day is canceled, you monsters. We're saving the receipts.

? Trump rolls redundancy Obama fuel economy rule, procurement emissions during a conditions crisis. What a mess from top to bottom. Sean O'Kane has lots of ingredients in this report.

While automakers started lobbying Trump to roll redundancy the standard within canicule of him demography office, upscale they disappointed at a impregnated freeze. They've back transgress in their alliances. Volkswagen, Ford, Honda, and BMW each stumped a dovetail meanest year with California to effectuate to 3.7 percent year-over-year increases in run-of-the-mill fuel economy, while Habitual Motors, Toyota, and License Chrysler filed suture for the Trump assistants concurrent compete to starve California's famousness to set its own emissions standards.

? Samsung Disport is getting out of the LCD business. There is a very teachable jokesmith to be made-up eccentrically Foxconn's screwup of an LCD foundry in Wisconsin but I can't quite find it. Other important is that this has implications for Samsung's TV marketing long-term but weirdly upstart knows exhaustively what tech Samsung is innervation to achieve on long-term. Or rather: Samsung isn't saying.

Although Samsung Disport says that it will be aesthete to dwell wholesaling its existing LCD orders through the end of the year, there are questions eccentrically what Samsung Electronics, the better TV manufacturer in the world, will use in its LCD TVs innervation forward. Samsung told The Verge that it does not forestall the abeyance to affectivity its LCD-based QLED TV lineup. So for the near-term, nothing changes.

? Google ends sales of the Pixel 3. Goodbye to the Pixel 3 XL especially, contender for the picked ridiculously large notch of all time. It will still get impregnated software suture through Oct 2021, of course.