02-04-2020, 05:42
Hi Jim,
One of the Test / Developers member informed me today too. Thanks.
Until the end of 2021, probably we already have changed to some other forecast provider which provide free API. OpenWeather is a possibility, but there are others.
We already saw a move like that when IBM bought Weather Wunderground. They also stoped provide free API keys for personal use, a few months later, they realise how wrong the decision was, and reverted it back, but it was too late. WU lost thousands of personal weather stations, and others started do send their data, at very long intervals, such was 30 minute or one hour, to break their intension to sell accurate local weather data, which mainly, were provided freely by the users who saw their personal API's key cancelled) .
In this case, seems DarkSky services will only be available to Apple world, a kind of world (highly priced devices, just because they have a brand behind) which probably will shrink significantly in a post covid-19 world.
One of the Test / Developers member informed me today too. Thanks.
Until the end of 2021, probably we already have changed to some other forecast provider which provide free API. OpenWeather is a possibility, but there are others.
We already saw a move like that when IBM bought Weather Wunderground. They also stoped provide free API keys for personal use, a few months later, they realise how wrong the decision was, and reverted it back, but it was too late. WU lost thousands of personal weather stations, and others started do send their data, at very long intervals, such was 30 minute or one hour, to break their intension to sell accurate local weather data, which mainly, were provided freely by the users who saw their personal API's key cancelled) .
In this case, seems DarkSky services will only be available to Apple world, a kind of world (highly priced devices, just because they have a brand behind) which probably will shrink significantly in a post covid-19 world.