34 PCWorld MAY 2020NEWS
IMAGE: MICHAEL SIMONKilled by Apple: Dark Sky isn’t
alone in Android app graveyard
Dark Sky isn’t the first Android app culled by Apple. BY MICHAEL SIMONI
n a press release that was as surprising as
it was terse, weather app and API
purveyor Dark Sky announced that it had
been acquired by Apple. Of course, iOS
users will be fine and the Dark Sky will
continue to be available for purchase in the
App Store until it inevitably replaces the stock
weather app in an upcoming iOS release.
Android users aren’t so lucky. Dark Sky
offered no promises or hope, saying plainlythat the Android and Wear OS apps will no
longer be available for download in the Play
Store and service to existing users and
subscribers will end on July 1.(Subscribers
who are still active at that time will receive a
refund for whatever remains of their $3 annual
subscription fee.)
What really hurts is that Apple will also be
pulling the Dark Sky API, which gave
developers powerful tools for tracking